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