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A Conflict Arises When A Religious Community Insists On The Absolute Truthfulness Of All Statements Recorded In The Bible. This Means An Intervention On The Part Of Religion Into The Sphere Of Science; This Is Where The Struggle Of The Church Against Doctrines Of Galileo And Darwin Belongs.

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A Conflict Arises When A Religious Community Insists On The Absolute Truthfulness Of All Statements Recorded In The Bible. This Means An Intervention On The Part Of Religion Into The Sphere Of Science; This Is Where The Struggle Of The Church Against Doctrines Of Galileo And Darwin Belongs.

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What I See In Nature Is A Magnificent Structure That We Can Comprehend Only Very Imperfectly, And That Must Fill A Thinking Person With A Feeling Of Humility. This Is A Genuinely Religious Feeling That Has Nothing To Do With Mysticism.

The World As We Have Created It Is A Process Of Our Thinking. It Cannot Be Changed Without Changing Our Thinking.

Evil Does Not Exist Sir, Or At Least It Does Not Exist Unto Itself. Evil Is Simply The Absence Of God. It Is Just Like Darkness And Cold, A Word That Man Has Created To Describe The Absence Of God. God Did Not Create Evil. Evil Is Not Like Faith, Or Love That Exist Just As Does Light And Heat. Evil Is The Result Of What Happens When Man Does Not Have God's Love Present In His Heart. It's Like The Cold That Comes When There Is No Heat Or The Darkness That Comes When There Is No Light.

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force; It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding.

For Any One Who Is Pervaded With The Sense Of Causal Law In All That Happens, Who Accepts In Real Earnest The Assumption Of Causality, The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible. Neither The Religion Of Fear Nor The Social-moral Religion Can Have Any Hold On Him.

Balance In Large Measure Is Knowing The Things That Can Be Changed, Putting Them In Proper Perspective, And Recognizing The Things That Will Not Change."

What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or, For That Matter, Of The Life Of Any Creature? To Know The Answer To This Question Means To Be Religious. You Ask: Does It Make Any Sense, Then, To Pose This Question? I Answer: The Man Who Regards His Fellow Creatures As Meaningless Is Not Merely Unhappy But Hardly Fit For Life.

The Daily Struggle Does Not Arise From A Purpose Or A Program, But From An Immediate Need.

Qualities I Sought In A Scientific Theory Were Naturalness, Inner Perfection And Logical Simplicity From An Aesthetic Approach.

Good Acts Are Like Good Poems. One May Easily Get Their Drift, But They Are Not Rationally Understood.

I See A Pattern, But My Imagination Cannot Picture The Maker Of That Pattern. I See A Clock, But I Cannot Envision The Clockmaker. The Human Mind Is Unable To Conceive Of The Four Dimensions, So How Can It Conceive Of A God, Before Whom A Thousand Years And A Thousand Dimensions Are As One?

My Mind Is My Laboratory.

If The Believers Of The Present-day Religions Would Earnestly Try To Think And Act In The Spirit Of The Founders Of These Religions Then No Hostility On The Basis Of Religion Would Exist Among The Followers Of The Different Faiths. Even The Conflicts And The Realm Of Religion Would Be Exposed As Insignificant.

If I Had Foreseen Hiroshima And Nagasaki, I Would Have Torn Up My Formula In 1905.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

The Highest Principles For Our Aspirations And Judgments Are Given To Us In The Jewish-christian Religious Tradition.

Creativity Is Seeing What Others See And Thinking What No One Else Has Ever Thought.

I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited, Whereas Imagination Embraces The Entire World, Stimulating Progress, Giving Birth To Evolution. It Is, Strictly Speaking, A Real Factor In Scientific Research.

My Passionate Sense Of Social Justice And Social Responsibility Has Always Contrasted Oddly With My Pronounced Lack Of Need For Direct Contact With Other Human Beings And Human Communities. I Am Truly A 'lone Traveler' And Have Never Belonged To My Country, My Home, My Friends, Or Even My Immediate Family, With My Whole Heart; In The Face Of All These Ties, I Have Never Lost A Sense Of Distance And A Need For Solitude.

E=mc2. Energy Equals Mass Times The Speed Of Light Squared. The Original Statement Is: If A Body Gives Off The Energy L In The Form Of Radiation, Its Mass Diminishes By L/c2. Ist Die Tragheit Eines Korpers Von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig? 1905

The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible

Yes, We Now Have To Divide Up Our Time Like That, Between Politics And Our Equations. But To Me Our Equations Are Far More Important, For Politics Are Only A Matter Of Present Concern. A Mathematical Equation Stands Forever.

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.

Time Is What The Clock Says.

...and Knowledge Is One Of The Finest Attributes Of Man - Though Often It Is Most Loudly Voiced By Those Who Strive For It The Least.

God Reveals Himself In The Orderly Harmony Of What Exists.

The World Will Not Be Destroyed By Those Who Do Evil, But By Those Who Watch Them Without Doing Anything.

Compound Interest Is The Eighth Natural Wonder Of The World And The Most Powerful Thing I Have Ever Encountered.

Natural Wonders

Art Is The Expression Of The Profoundest Thoughts In The Simplest Way.

Experts Are Just Trained Dogs.

It Is Important To Foster Individuality, For Only The Individual Can Produce The New Ideas.

It Is Not So Very Important For A Person To Learn Facts. For That He Does Not Really Need A College. He Can Learn Them From Books. The Value Of An Education In A Liberal Arts College Is Not Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think Something That Cannot Be Learned From Textbooks.

Imagination Is Everything. It Is The Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions.

When A Man, After Long Years Of Searching, Chances Upon A Thought Which Discloses Something Of The Beauty Of This Mysterious Universe, He Should Not Therefore Be Personally Celebrated. He Is Already Sufficiently Paid By His Experience Of Seeking And Finding.

Mysterious Universe

I Fully Agree With You About The Significance And Educational Value Of As Well As History And Philosophy Of Science. So Many People Today - And Even Professional - Seem To Me Like Someone Who Has Seen Thousands Of Trees But Has Never Seen A Forest. A Knowledge Of The Historic And Philosophical Background Gives That Kind Of Independence From Prejudices Of His Generation From Which Most Scientists Are Suffering. This Independence Created By Philosophical Insight Is - In My Opinion - The Mark Of Distinction Between A Mere Artisan Or Specialist And A Real Seeker After Truth.

In My Relativity Theory I Set Up A Clock At Every Point In Space, But In Reality I Find It Difficult To Provide Even One Clock In My Room.

Man Owes His Strength In The Struggle For Existence To The Fact That He Is A Social Animal.

The Value Of A Man Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

X + Y + Z X Is Work. Y Is Play. Z Is Keep Your Mouth Shut.

Keeping Your Mouth Shut

A Society's Competitive Advantage Will Come Not From How Well Its Schools Teach The Multiplication And Periodic Tables, But From How Well They Stimulate Imagination And Creativity.

In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God.

A Man Must Learn To Understand The Motives Of Human Beings, Their Illusions, And Their Sufferings.

In The View Of Such Harmony In The Cosmos Which I, With My Limited Human Mind, Am Able To Recognize, There Are Yet People Who Says There Is No God. But What Makes Me Really Angry Is That They Quote Me For Support Of Such Views. (the Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, Page 214)

Princeton University

Where There Is Love, There Is No Imposition.

Only In Mathematics And Physics Was I, Through Self-study, Far Beyond The School Curriculum, And Also With Regard To Philosophy As It Was Taught In The School Curriculum.

Don't Become A Seeker Of Success. Become A Person Of Value.

My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature And By No Other Feeling. My Love For Justice And Striving To Contribute Towards The Improvement Of Human Conditions Are Quite Independent From My Scientific Interests.

The Tyranny Of The Ignoramuses Is Insurmountable And Assured For All Time.

To Sense That Behind Anything That Can Be Experienced There Is A Something That Our Mind Cannot Grasp And Whose Beauty And Sublimity Reaches Us Only Indirectly And As A Feeble Reflection, This Is Religiousness. In This Sense I Am Religious.

I Think We Have To Safeguard Ourselves Against People Who Are A Menace To Others, Quite Apart From What May Have Motivated Their Deeds.

Without The Sense Of Fellowship With Men Of Like Mind, Of Preoccupation With The Objective, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Research, Life Would Have Seemed To Me Empty.

Those People Have Seen 'something'. What It Is I Do Not Know And I Can Not Care To Know.

Do You Believe In Miracles? Well, You Should. In Fact, Life Itself Is A Big Miracle. There Are So Many Things That Are Beyond Our Understanding. There Are Two Ways To Live: You Can Live As If Nothing Is A Miracle; You Can Live As If Everything Is A Miracle.

Overemphasis Of The Competitive System And Premature Specialization On The Ground Of Immediate Usefulness Kill The Spirit On Which All Cultural Life Depends, Specialized Knowledge Included.

Before God We Are All Equally Wise - And Equally Foolish.

Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Question Which Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Has For Its Purpose To Discover What Pupils Knows Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

Even Though The Realms Of Religion And Science In Themselves Are Clearly Marked Off From Each Other, Nevertheless There Exist Between The Two Strong Reciprocal Relationships And Dependencies.

Science And Religion

I Said Before, The Most Beautiful And Most Profound Religious Emotion That We Can Experience Is The Sensation Of The Mystical. And This Mysticality Is The Power Of All True Science. If There Is Any Such Concept As A God, It Is A Subtle Spirit, Not An Image Of A Man That So Many Have Fixed In Their Minds. In Essence, My Religion Consists Of A Humble Admiration For This Illimitable Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Slight Details That We Are Able To Perceive With Our Frail And Feeble Minds.

In Theory, Theory And Practice Are The Same. In Practice, They Are Not.

[freud's] Sense Of Reality Is Less Clouded By Wishful Thinking Than Is The Case With Other People And [he Combines] The Qualities Of Critical Judgment, Earnestness And Responsibility.

The Devil Has Put A Penalty On All Things We Enjoy In Life. Either We Suffer In Our Health, Or We Suffer In Our Soul, Or We Get Fat.

If We Think Of The Field As Being Removed, There Is No 'space' Which Remains, Since Space Does Not Have An Independent Existence.

What A Sad Era When It Is Easier To Smash An Atom Than A Prejudice.

My Success Wasn't So Much Due To Intelligence, But The Fact That I Stuck With Problems Longer.

I Was Just More Stubborn And More Passionate Than Most About Physics.

I Have Little Patience With Scientists Who Take A Board Of Wood, Look For Its Thinnest Part, And Drill A Great Number Of Holes Where Drilling Is Easy.

My Deep Religiosity [...] Found An Abrupt Ending At The Age Of Twelve, Through The Reading Of Popular Scientific Books.

There Are Two Different Conceptions About The Nature Of The Universe: (1) The World As A Unity Dependent On Humanity; (2) The World As A Reality Independent Of The Human Factor.

I Used To Go Away For Weeks In A State Of Confusion.

Creative Energy Is More Critical Than Learning.

Brief Is This Existence, As A Visit In A Strange House. The Path To Be Pursued Is Poorly Lit By A Flickering Consciousness.

Bear In Mind That The Wonderful Things You Learn In Your Schools Are The Work Of Many Generations. All This Is Put In Your Hands As Your Inheritance In Order That You May Receive It, Honor It, Add To It, And One Day Faithfully Hand It On To Your Children.

Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It.

We Should Take Care Not To Make The Intellect Our God; It Has, Of Course, Powerful Muscles, But No Personality.

I Am Satisfied With The Mystery Of Life's Eternity And With A Knowledge, A Sense, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Existence - As Well As The Humble Attempt To Understand Even A Tiny Portion Of The Reason That Manifests Itself In Nature.

The Most Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning.

What I Value In Life Is Quality Rather Then Quantity.

The Years Of Searching In The Dark For A Truth That One Feels But Cannot Express, The Intense Desire And The Alternations Of Confidence And Misgiving Until One Breaks Through To Clarity And Understanding, Are Known Only To Him Who Has Experienced Them Himself.

The Most Beautiful Emotion We Can Experience Is The Mystical. It Is The Power Of All True Art And Science. He To Whom This Emotion Is A Stranger, Who Can No Longer Wonder And Stand Rapt In Awe, Is As Good As Dead. To Know That What Is Impenetrable To Us Really Exists, Manifesting Itself As The Highest Wisdom And The Most Radiant Beauty, Which Our Dull Faculties Can Comprehend Only In Their Most Primitive Forms - This Knowledge, This Feeling, Is At The Center Of True Religiousness. In This Sense, And In This Sense Only, I Belong To The Rank Of Devoutly Religious Men.

The Prestige Of Government Has Undoubtedly Been Lowered Considerably By The Prohibition Law. For Nothing Is More Destructive Of Respect For The Government And The Law Of The Land Than Passing Laws Which Cannot Be Enforced. It Is An Open Secret That The Dangerous Increase Of Crime In This Country Is Closely Connected With This.

Creativity Is Contagious. Pass It On.

A Tyranny Based On ... Deception And Maintained By Terror Must Inevitably Perish From The Poison It Generates Within Itself.

I Take It To Be True That Pure Thought Can Grasp The Real, As The Ancients Had Dreamed.

If The Workers Of This World, Men And Women, Decide Not To Manufacture And Transport Ammunition, It Would End War For All Time. We Must Do That. Dedicate Our Lives To Drying Up The Source Of War; Ammunition Factories.

There Are Times When One Feels Liberated From One’s Limits And Human Imperfections. At Such Moments, We See Ourselves There, In A Little Corner Of Our Little Planet, Our Eyes Fixed In Wonder On The Cold And Yet Deep Beauty Of That Which Is Eternal, That Which Is Elusive. Life And Death Are Fused Together And There Is No Evolution, Nor Destination, There Is Only Being.

It Almost Seems To Me That Man Was Not Born To Be A Carnivore.

The Laws Of Gravity Cannot Be Held Responcible For People Falling In Love.

Falling In Love

Nothing In The World Makes People So Afraid As The Influence Of Independent-minded People.

Real Sign Of Intelligence Isn't Knoweldge, It's Imagination

Without Deep Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People.

As Soon As Science Has Emerged From Its Initial Stages, Theoretical Advances Are No Longer Achieved Merely By A Process Of Arrangement. Guided By Empirical Data, The Investigator Rather Develops A System Of Thought Which, In General, Is Built Up Logically From A Small Number Of Fundamental Assumptions, The So-called Axioms. We Call Such A System Of Thought A Theory. The Theory Finds The Justification For Its Existence In The Fact That It Correlates A Large Number Of Single Observations, And It Is Just Here That The 'truth' Of The Theory Lies.

Inner Freedom Is An Infrequent Gift Of Nature And A Worthy Object For The Individual.

I Regard Class Differences As Contrary To Justice And, In The Last Resort, Based On Force.

Anyone Who Doesn't Take Truth Seriously In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Large Ones Either.

The Aim Of Science Is, On The One Hand, As Complete A Comprehension As Possible Of The Connection Between Perceptible Experiences In Their Totality, And, On The Other Hand, The Achievement Of This Aim By Employing A Minimum Of Primary Concepts And Relations.

As I Have Said So Many Times, God Doesn't Play Dice With The World.

The Problems That Exist In This World Can Not Be Solved By The Level Of Thinking That Created Them.

In A Sailboat I Become Oblivious To Everything Else In The World.

Who Would Have Thought Around 1900 That In Fifty Years Time We Would Know So Much More And Understand So Much Less.

Growth Comes Through Analogy; Through Seeing How Things Connect, Rather Than Only Seeing How They Might Be Different.

Failure Is Success In Progress

All That Is Valuable In Human Society Depends Upon The Opportunity For Development Accorded The Individual.

Ethical Axioms Are Found And Tested Not Very Differently From The Axioms Of Science. Truth Is What Stands The Test Of Experience.

[i] Must Seek In The Stars That Which Was Denied [to Me] On Earth.

Although Words Exist For The Most Part For The Transmission Of Ideas, There Are Some Which Produce Such Violent Disturbance In Our Feelings That The Role They Play In The Transmission Of Ideas Is Lost In The Background.

The Only Source Of Knowledge Is Experience.

The Greatest Tragedy Of Human Existence Is The Illusion Of Separateness.

I Myself Should Also Be Dead Already, But I Am Still Here.

The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

God Always Takes The Simplest Way.

As Long As There Are Sovereign Nations Possessing Great Power, War Is Inevitable.

We Cannot Resolve The Problems Of The World By Unsing The Same Techniques That Have Created Them.

You See, Wire Telegraph Is A Kind Of A Very, Very Long Cat. You Pull His Tail In New York And His Head Is Meowing In Los Angeles. Do You Understand This? And Radio Operates Exactly The Same Way: You Send Signals Here, They Receive Them There. The Only Difference Is That There Is No Cat.

I Have Made The Bhagwad Gita As The Main Source Of My Inspiration And Guide For The Purpose Of Scientific Investigations And Formation Of My Theories.

The Road To Perdition Has Ever Been Accompanied By Lip Service To An Ideal.

The First And Most Important Necessity Is The Creation Of A Modus Vivendi With The Arab People.

Time Is Just Something We Invented To Make Motion Seem Simple.

The World Is Not Threatened By Evil People, But By Those Who Allow Evil To Take Place.

It Seems To Me That The Idea Of A Personal God Is An Anthropological Concept Which I Cannot Take Seriously. I Feel Also Not Able To Imagine Some Will Or Goal Outside The Human Sphere. My Views Are Near Those Of Spinoza: Admiration For The Beauty Of And Belief In The Logical Simplicity Of The Order Which We Can Grasp Humbly And Only Imperfectly. I Believe That We Have To Content Ourselves With Our Imperfect Knowledge And Understanding And Treat Values And Moral Obligations As A Purely Human Problem-the Most Important Of All Human Problems.

When You Sit With A Nice Girl For Two Hours, It Seems Like Two Minutes; When You Sit On A Hot Stove For Two Minutes, It Seems Like Two Hours. That's Relativity.

I Consider It Important, Indeed Urgently Necessary, For Intellectual Workers To Get Together, Both To Protect Their Own Economic Status And, Also, Generally Speaking, To Secure Their Influence In The Political Field.

If You Want To Find Out Anything From The Theoretical Physicists About The Methods They Use, I Advise You To Stick Closely To One Principle: Don't Listen To Their Words, Fix Your Attention On Their Deeds. To Him Who Is A Discoverer In This Field The Products Of His Imagination Appear So Necessary And Natural That He Regards Them, And Would Like To Have Them Regarded By Others, Not As Creations Of Thought But As Given Realities.

I Do Not Like To State An Opinion On A Matter Unless I Know The Precise Facts.

Since I Have Introduced This Term I Had Always A Bad Conscience. . . . I Cannot Help To Feel It Strongly And I Am Unable To Believe That Such An Ugly Thing Should Be Realized In Nature.

Do Things Sound Better In Your Head Before You Say Them, Or Do You Even Run Them Through There First?

Infinite Striving To Be The Best Is Man's Duty; It Is Its Own Reward. Everything Else Is In God's Hands. It's Not That I'm So Smart, It's Just That I Stay With Problems Longer.

Common Sense Needs Constant Reappraisal.

Live Your Life... As Though Everything Is A Miracle.

The Question That Drives Me Hazy Is Whether It Is I Or Others Who Is Crazy.

But If The Longing For The Achievement Of The Goal Is Powerfully Alive Within Us, Then Shall We Not Lack The Strength To Find The Means For Reaching The Goal And For Translating It Into Deeds.

History Is Littered With Examples Of Men Who Would Become Gods, But Only One Example Of God Becoming Man.

Whatever There Is Of God And Goodness In The Universe, It Must Work Itself Out And Express Itself Through Us. We Cannot Stand Aside And Let God Do It.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries

In Matters Of Trust And Justice There Can Be No Distinction Between Big Problems And Small, For The General Principles Which Determine The Conduct Of Men Are Indivisible. Whoever Is Careless With The Truth In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Important Affairs.

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 My Talent For Absorbing Positive Knowledge. (reading This Makes Me Wonder How Much Sooner Man Could Have Walked On The Moon... Had We Listened To A Child's Fantasies. It Is Truly A Pity That So Many Lose Their Gift Of Imagination To The Steady Hum Of The Status Quo.)

It Is A Miracle That Curiosity Survives Formal Education.

Paper Is To Write Things Down That We Need To Remember. Our Brains Are Used To Think.

Since Others Have Explained My Theory, I Can No Longer Understand It Myself.

I Never Made One Of My Discoveries Through The Process Of Rational Thinking

To My Mind, To Kill In War Is Not A Whit Better Than To Commit Ordinary Murder.

Future Medicine Will Be The Medicine Of Frequencies.

It Is My View That The Vegetarian Manner Of Living, By Its Purely Physical Effect On The Human Temperament, Would Most Beneficially Influence The Lot Of Mankind.

After A Certain High Level Of Technical Skill Is Achieved Science And Art Tend To Coalesce In Aesthetics, Plasticity, And Form. The Greatest Scientists Are Artists As Well.

Our Situation On This Earth Seems Strange. Every One Of Us Appears Here Involuntarily And Uninvited For A Short Stay, Without Knowing The Whys And The Wherefore. In Our Daily Lives We Only Feel That Man Is Here For The Sake Of Others, For Those Whom We Love And For Many Other Beings Whose Fate Is Connected With Our Own. I Am Often Worried At The Thought That My Life Is Based To Such A Large Extent On The Work Of My Fellow Human Beings And I Am Aware Of My Great Indebtedness To Them.

You Might As Well Not Be Alive If You're Not In Awe Of God.

Laws Alone Can Not Secure Freedom Of Expression; In Order That Every Man Present His Views Without Penalty There Must Be Spirit Of Tolerance In The Entire Population.

A Theory Is Something Nobody Believes, Except The Person Who Made It. An Experiment Is Something Everybody Believes, Except The Person Who Made It.

I Cannot Conceive Of A Personal God Who Would Directly Influence The Actions Of Individuals, Or Would Directly Sit In Judgment On Creatures Of His Own Creation.

There Is No Salvation For Civilization, Or Even The Human Race, Other Than The Creation Of A World Government.

World Government

The Fact That Man Produces A Concept "i" Besides The Totality Of His Mental And Emotional Experiences Or Perceptions Does Not Prove That There Must Be Any Specific Existence Behind Such A Concept. We Are Succumbing To Illusions Produced By Our Self-created Language, Without Reaching A Better Understanding Of Anything. Most Of So-called Philosophy Is Due To This Kind Of Fallacy.

Culture In Its Higher Forms Is A Delicate Plant Which Depends On A Complicated Set Of Conditions And Is Wont To Flourish Only In A Few Places At Any Given Time.

There Does, In Fact, Appear To Be A Plan.

The Right To Search For Truth Implies Also A Duty.

Search For Truth

By Academic Freedom I Understand The Right To Search For Truth And To Publish And Teach What One Holds To Be True. This Right Also Implies A Duty: One Must Not Conceal Any Part Of What One Has Recognized To Be True.

I Love To Travel, But Hate To Arrive.

It Is Only To The Individual That A Soul Is Given.

The Only Real Valuable Thing Is Intuition. The Intellect Has Little To Do On The Road To Discovery

The Whole Of Science Is Nothing More Than A Refinement Of Everyday Thinking.

In Scientific Thinking Are Always Present Elements Of Poetry. Science And Music Requires A Thought Homogeneous.

We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.

The Chicken Did Not Cross The Road. The Road Passed Beneath The Chicken.

Lasting Harmony With A Woman (was) An Undertaking In Which I Twice Failed Rather Disgracefully.

Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle. If You Want To Stay Balanced You've Got To Keep Moving Forward.

The Majority Of The Stupid Is Invincible And Guaranteed For All Time. The Terror Of Their Tyranny, However, Is Alleviated By Their Lack Of Consistency.

I Know That Philosophically A Murderer Is Not Responsible For His Crime, But I Prefer Not To Take Tea With Him.

It Takes A Different Kind Of Thinking To Solve A Problem Than The Kind Of Thinking Which Produced The Problem.

He Who Finds Though That Lets Us Penetrate Even A Little Deeper Into The Eternal Mystery Of Nature Has Been Granted Great Grace. He Who, In Addition, Experiences The Recognition, Sympathy, And Help Of The Best Minds Of His Times, Had Been Given Almost More Happiness Than One Man Can Bear.

About Newton: Nature To Him Was An Open Book, Whose Letters He Could Read Without Effort.

Joy And Amazement Of The Beauty And Grandeur Of This World Of Which Man Can Just Form A Faint Notion.

An Attempt At Visualizing The Fourth Dimension: Take A Point, Stretch It Into A Line, Curl It Into A Circle, Twist It Into A Sphere, And Punch Through The Sphere.

What Is Inconceivable About The Universe Is That It Is At All Conceivable.

If You Want To Make Your Children Brilliant, Tell Them Fairy Tales. If You Want To Make Them More Brilliant, Tell Them More Fairy Tales.

In The Midst Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

Information Is Not Knowledge.

Thought Provoking

What I'm Really Interested In Is Whether God Could Have Made The World In A Different Way; That Is, Whether The Necessity Of Logical Simplicity Leaves Any Freedom At All.

Not Until We Dare To Regard Ourselves As A Nation, Not Until We Respect Ourselves, Can We Gain The Esteem Of Others, Or Rather Only Then Will It Come Of Its Own Accord

Any Fool Can Know. The Point Is To Understand.

Reason Is Intuition's Servant.

You Cannot Prevent And Prepare For War At The Same Time.

One Always Likes To Do The Things For Which One Has Ability.

Nationalism, On My Opinion, Is Nothing More Than An Idealistic Rationalization For Militarism And Aggression.

Out Yonder There Was This Huge World...which Stands Before Us Like A Great Eternal Riddle.

I Now See The Necessity Of A Beginning.

For The Most Part, I Do The Thing Which My Own Nature Prompts Me To Do. It Is Embarrassing To Earn So Much Respect And Love For It.

Love And Respect

The Wonder Of Nature Does Not Become Smaller Because One Cannot Measure It By The Standards Of Human Moral And Human Aims.

Long Live Impudence. It Was My Guardian Angel In This World.

There Lies The Weaknesss Of Positivists And Professional Atheists Who Are Elated Because They Feel That They Have Not Only Successfully Rid The World Of Gods But "bared The Miracles." (that Is, Explained The Miracles. - Ed.) Oddly Enough, We Must Be Satisfied To Acknowledge The "miracle" Without There Being Any Legitimate Way For Us To Approach It . I Am Forced To Add That Just To Keep You From Thinking That -weakened By Age-i Have Fallen Prey To The Clergy.

Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels.

True Religion Is Real Living; Living With All One's Soul, With All One's Goodness And Righteousness.

Why Is It That No One Understands Me And Everybody Likes Me

Experience Alone Can Decide On Truth.

It Is A Very Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty.

It Is Not A Lack Of Real Affection That Scares Me Away Again And Again From Marriage. Is It A Fear Of The Comfortable Life, Of Nice Furniture, Of Dishonor That I Burden Myself With, Or Even The Fear Of Becoming A Contented Bourgeois.

I Cannot Conceive Of A Personal God Who Would Directly Influence The Actions Of Individuals, Or Would Directly Sit In Judgment On Creatures Of His Own Creation. I Cannot Do This In Spite Of The Fact That Mechanistic Causality Has, To A Certain Extent, Been Placed In Doubt By Modern Science. My Religiosity Consists In A Humble Admiration Of The Infinitely Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Little That We, With Our Weak And Transitory Understanding, Can Comprehend Of Reality. Morality Is Of The Highest Importance - But For Us, Not For God.

Education Is Not Received. It Is Achieved.

Mathematics Deals Exclusively With The Relations Of Concepts To Each Other Without Consideration Of Their Relation To Experience.

To Obtain An Assured Favorable Response From People, It Is Better To Offer Them Something For Their Stomachs Instead Of Their Brains.

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation And Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty.

He Who Has Never Been Deceived By A Lie Does Not Know The Meaning Of Bliss.

Once You Stop Learning, You Start Dying

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