▶ "Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."; "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."; "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."; "When the solution is simple, God is answering."; "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."; …"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."; "We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."; "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."; "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."; "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."; "We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."; "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."; "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."; "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."; "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."; "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."; "There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."; "There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case."; "There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."; "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."; "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."; "The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."; "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."; "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."; "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."; "The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal."; "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."; "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."; "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."; "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."; "The only source of knowledge is experience."; "The only real valuable thing is intuition."; "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."; "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."; "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."; "The man of science is a poor philosopher."; "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."; "The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."; "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."; "The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."; "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."; "The faster you go, the shorter you are."; "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."; "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."; "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."; "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."; "That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."; "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."; "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."; "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."; "Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."; "Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."; "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."; "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."; "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."; "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."; "Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity."; "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age."; "People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."; "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."; "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."; "Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."; "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."; "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."; "One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."; "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."; "Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."; "Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."; "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."; "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."; "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."; "Never lose a holy curiosity."; "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."; "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."; "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."; "Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."; "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."; "Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."; "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."; "Love is a better teacher than duty."; "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."; "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."; "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."; "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."; "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."; "It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."; "It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."; "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."; "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."; "It is only to the individual that a soul is given."; "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."; "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."; "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."; "It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."; "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."; "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."; "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."; "Information is not knowledge."; "In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."; "In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."; "Imagination is more important than knowledge."; "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."; "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"; "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."; "I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details."; "I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."; "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."; "I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world."; "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."; "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."; "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."; "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."; "I have just got a new theory of eternity."; "I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."; "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."; "I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."; "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."; "I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."; "I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."; "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."; "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion."; "Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."; "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"; "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."; "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."; "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."; "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."; "God does not play dice."; "God always takes the simplest way."; "Force always attracts men of low morality."; "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."; "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."; "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."; "Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."; "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."; "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."; "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."; "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."; "Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."; "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."; "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."; "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."; "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."; "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."; "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."; "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."; "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."; "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."; "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."; "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."; "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."; "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."; "All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."; "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."; "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"; "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"; "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."; "A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."; "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
