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"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."
"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."
"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
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