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“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”7
“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”23
“I became more and more convinced that nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.”
“Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle.”37
“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way,” Einstein once said. “But,” he hastened to add, “intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”8