I Need Physics More Than

Things Which Stimulate My Curiosity Are Pretty Far Removed From The Practical And Therefore From Classification.

In A Free World, If It Is To Remain Free, We Must Maintain, With Our Lives If Need Be, But Surely By Our Lives, The Opportunity For A Man To Learn Anything

Everyone Wants Rather To Be Pleasing To Women And That Desire Is Not Altogether, Though It Is Very Largely, A Manifestation Of Vanity. But One Cannot Aim To Be Pleasing To Women Any More Than One Can Aim To Have Taste, Or Beauty Of Expression, Or Happiness; For These Things Are Not Specific Aims Which One May Learn To Attain; They Are Descriptions Of The Adequacy Of One's Living. To Try To Be Happy Is To Try To Build A Machine With No Other Specification Than That It Shall Run Noiselessly.

It Is Proper To The Role Of The Scientist That He Not Merely Find New Truth And Communicate It To His Fellows, But That He Teach, That He Try To Bring The Most Honest And Intelligible Account Of New Knowledge To All Who Will Try To Learn.

Science Starts With Preconception, With The Common Culture, And With Common Sense. It Moves On To Observation, Is Marked By The Discovery Of Paradox, And Is Then Concerned With The Correction Of Preconception. It Moves Then To Use These Corrections For The Designing Of Further Observation And For More Refined Experiment. And As It Moves Along This Course The Nature Of The Evidence And Experience That Nourish It Becomes More And More Unfamiliar; It Is Not Just The Language That Is Strange [to Common Culture].