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... Knowledge Must Continually Be Renewed By Ceaseless Effort, If It Is Not To Be Lost. It Resembles A Statue Of Marble Which Stands In The Desert And Is Continually Threatened With Burial By The Shifting Sand. The Hands Of Service Must Ever Be At Work, In Order That The Marble Continue To Lastingly Shine In The Sun. To These Serving Hands Mine Shall Also Belong.

Laws Alone Can Not Secure Freedom Of Expression; In Order That Every Man Present His Views Without Penalty There Must Be Spirit Of Tolerance In The Entire Population.

Only A Very Dull Man Spells A Word The Same Way Twice.

Genius Abhors Consensus Because When Consensus Is Reached, Thinking Stops. Stop Nodding Your Head.

No One Must Think That Newton’s Great Creation Can Be Overthrown In Any Real Sense By This [theory Of Relativity] Or By Any Other Theory. His Clear And Wide Ideas Will For Ever Retain Their Significance As The Foundation On Which Our Modern Conceptions Of Physics Have Been Built.