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"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice."

— Albert Einstein in a 1926 letter to Max Born

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"The complete is more than the sum of its pieces."

— Aristotle

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"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable."

— Albert Einstein in a response to Alfred Kerr

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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

— Galileo Galilei

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"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

— Isaac Newton

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"The truth is more important than the facts." ... "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

— Aristotle

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"Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."

— Albert Einstein

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"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. - Plurality should not be posited without necessity."

— William of Ockham - Occam's razor

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"Cogito ergo sum. – I think, therefore I am."

— René Descartes Discourse on Method

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