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"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
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"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
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"One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course."
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"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
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