“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
“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 man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“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.’
“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavours. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“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.”
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“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.”
“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“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.”
“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.”
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
“Never lose a holy curiosity.”
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“The environment is everything that isn't me.”
“The faster you go, the shorter you are.”
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“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 important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“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 unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
“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 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.”
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
“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.”
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
