"If I could remember the names of..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
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“Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?”
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
“Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”
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“Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.”
“Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.”
“Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.”