"About Newton: Nature to him was an..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
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“There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.”
“If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.”
“Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.”
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“Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror”
“The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.”
“After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?”
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“Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.”
“For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.”
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.”