![[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.](/assets/img/quote-photos/great-scientists-are-men-of-bold-ideas-but-highly-critical-of-their-own-ideas.jpg)
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hard-work funny-work people
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hard-work thinking desire
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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. Albert Schweitzer
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men problem great-men
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Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy. Stavros Cosmopulos
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