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One may wonder whether it is in man’s interest to know nature’s secrets, if he is ready to benefit from them or if this knowledge will harm him…. I am among those who believe that humanity will draw more benefit than harm from these discoveries. |
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The universe is a dissymmetric whole. I am led to believe that life, as it is revealed to us, must be a function of the dissymmetry of the universe, or of the consequences that it involves. |
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Women, much more than men, love life for life’s sake. |
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I believe – that justice is not of this world, and that the strongest system or rather the one best developed from the economic point of view will be that which will stand. A man may exhaust himself by work, and yet live, at best miserably. This is a revolting fact, but it will not, because of that, cease. It will disappear probably because man is a kind of machine, and it is of economic advantage to make every machine work in its normal manner, without forcing it. |
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We are all slaves of our affections,…slaves of the prejudices of those we love. |
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…We must make a living, and this forces us to become a wheel in the machine. The most painful are the concessions we are forced to make to the prejudices of the society in which we live. We must make more or fewer compromises according as we feel ourselves feebler or stronger. If one does not make enough concessions he is crushed; if he makes too many he is ignoble and despises himself. |
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What would you think of a person who would knock his head against a stone wall with the intention of overthrowing it ? Such an idea might be the result of very beautiful feelings, but in realization it would be ridiculous and stupid. I believe that certain questions demand a general solution, and do not admit, today, of specific solutions, and the one who begins a course that has no issue, may do much harm. |
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…In science we should be interested in things and not in persons. |
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Whatever happens, even if one should become like a body without a soul, still one must always work. |
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…I am among those who believe with Nobel that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries. |
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We must eat, drink, sleep, be idle, love, touch the sweetest things of life and yet not succumb to them. It is necessary that, in doing all this, the higher thoughts to which one is dedicated remain dominant and continue their unmoved course in our poor heads. |
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…It is necessary to make a dream of life, and to make of a dream a reality. |
