"The most important tool of the theoretical..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
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“I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.”
“The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.”
“Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.”
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“Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.”
“I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.”
“I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.”
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“You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.”
“[On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."”
“One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.”