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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions