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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"
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"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."
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"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
"I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one."
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering."
"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more."
"The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God."
"For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one."
"I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments."
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