Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Information is not knowledge.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
God does not play dice.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.