The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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True creativity often starts where language ends.
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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.