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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."

"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"No one can do the learning for you."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."

"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."
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