"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

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"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday."

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"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."

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"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"

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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

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"Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate."

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"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

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"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."

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"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."

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"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."

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"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."

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