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"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."
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"Much self - condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'."
"It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited."
"There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it, the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it."
"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."
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"Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time."
"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."
"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market."
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."
"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
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