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Even Short Words Of Encouragement Is Enough To Enlighten One's Darkened Minds And Make Things A Little Bit Easier To Handle. You Might Be Searching For Short Motivational Quotes, That's Why I'm Here To Give You A Set Of The Best Short Inspiring Quotes. Try Not To Become A Man Of Success But A Man Of Value.

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Thought Is The Organizing Factor In Man, Intersected Between The Causal Primary Instincts And The Resulting Actions.

The Same Thinking That Has Led You To Where You Are Is Not Going To Lead You To Where You Want To Go.

He Who Can No Longer Pause To Wonder And Stand Rapt In Awe, Is As Good As Dead; His Eyes Are Closed.

There Have Already Been Published By The Bucketsful Such Brazen Lies And Utter Fictions About Me That I Would Long Since Have Gone To My Grave If I Had Allowed Myself To Pay Attention To Them.

You Must Be Aware That Most Men (and Also Not Only A Few Women) Are By Nature Not Monogamous. This Nature Makes Itself Even More Forceful When Tradition And Circumstance Stand In An Individual's Way.

We Must Not Conceal From Ourselves That No Improvement In The Present Depressing Situation Is Possible Without A Severe Struggle; For The Handful Of Those Who Are Really Determined To Do Something Is Minute In Comparison With The Mass Of The Lukewarm And The Misguided. And Those Who Have An Interest In Keeping The Machinery Of War Going Are A Very Powerful Body; They Will Stop At Nothing To Make Public Opinion Subservient To Their Murderous Ends.

Einstein Was Once Asked How Many Feet Are In A Mile. Einstein's Reply Was "i Don't Know, Why Should I Fill My Brain With Facts I Can Find In Two Minutes In Any Standard Reference Book?

One Of The Strongest Motives That Lead Men To Art And Science Is Escape From Everyday Life With Its Painful Crudity And Hopeless Dreariness, From The Fetters Of One's Own Ever-shifting Desires. A Finely Tempered Nature Longs To Escape From The Personal Life Into The World Of Objective Perception And Thought.

A Thought That Sometimes Makes Me Hazy: Am I - Or Are The Others Crazy?

Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.

The Most Fundamental Question We Can Ever Ask Ourselves Is Whether Or Not The Universe We Live In Is Friendly Or Hostile.

Genius Abhors Consensus Because When Consensus Is Reached, Thinking Stops. Stop Nodding Your Head.

Each Possession I Own Is But A Stone Around My Neck.

There's A Genius In All Of Us.

Science Has Gone A Long Way Toward Helping Man To Free Himself From The Burden Of Hard Labor; Yet, Science Itself Is Not A Liberator. It Creates Means, Not Goals. It Is Up To Men To Utilize Those Means To Achieve Reasonable Goals.

It Strikes Me As Unfair, And Even In Bad Taste, To Select A Few Of Them For Boundless Admiration, Attributing Superhuman Powers Of Mind And Character To Them. This Has Been My Fate, And The Contrast Between The Popular Estimate Of My Powers And Achievements And The Reality Is Simply Grotesque.

The Effort To Strive For Truth Has To Precede All Other Efforts.

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

It Is Easy To Say Something New, If All Senses One Will Eschew. But Hardly Ever Is Found, That The New Is Also Sound.

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.

God Reveals Himself In The Orderly Harmony Of What Exists.

To One Bent On Age, Death Will Come As A Release. I Feel This Quite Strongly Now That I Have Grown Old Myself And Have Come To Regard Death Like An Old Debt, At Long Last To Be Discharged.

Everything Is Determined, The Beginning As Well As The End, By Forces Over Which We Have No Control. It Is Determined For The Insect, As Well As For The Star. Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

There Is Only One Road To Human Greatness: Through The School Of Hard Knocks.

Bureaucracy Is The Death Of All Sound Work.

Government Bureaucracy

If A Man Aspires Towards A Righteous Life, His First Act Of Abstinence Is From Injury To Animals.

Our Entire Much-praised Technological Progress, And Civilization Generally, Could Be Compared To An Axe In The Hand Of A Pathological Criminal.

This Topic Brings Me To That Worst Outcrop Of Herd Life, The Military System, Which I Abhor... This Plague-spot Of Civilization Ought To Be Abolished With All Possible Speed. Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism -- How Passionately I Hate Them!

The Constitution Only Guarantees The American People The Right To Pursue Happiness. You Have To Catch It Yourself. A Table, A Chair, A Bowl Of Fruit And A Violin; What Else Does A Man Need To Be Happy?

Time Is Not At All What It Seems. It Does Not Flow In Only One Direction, And The Future Exists Simultaneously With The Past.

Political Leaders Or Governments Owe Their Position Partly To Force And Partly To Popular Election. They Cannot Be Regarded As Representative Of Best Elements, Morally Or Intellectually, In Their Respective Nations.

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.

The Most Evident Difference Springs From The Important Part Which Is Played In Man By A Relatively Strong Power Of Imagination And By The Capacity To Think, Aided As It Is By Language And Other Symbolically Devices.

Assumptions Are Made And Most Assumptions Are Wrong.

It Is Very Difficult To Explain This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It. The Individual Feels The Nothingness Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Though. He Looks Upon Individual Existence As A Sort Of Prison And Wants To Experience The Universe As A Single Significant Whole.

As To Science, We May Well Define It For Our Purpose As "methodical Thinking Directed Toward Finding Regulative Connections Between Our Sensual Experiences".

If A Theory Can Not Be Explained To A Child, Then The Theory Is Probably Worthless.

Don't Listen To The Person Who Has The Answers; Listen To The Person Who Has The Questions.

I Believe That I Have Really Found The Relationship Between Gravitation And Electricity, Assuming That The Miller Experiments Are Based On A Fundamental Error. Otherwise, The Whole Relativity Theory Collapses Like A House Of Cards.

Either Cs (coordinate System) Could Be Used With Equal Justification. The Two Sentences: The Sun Is At Rest And The Earth Moves, Or The Sun Moves And The Earth Is At Rest, Would Simply Mean Two Different Conventions Concerning Two Different Cs

God Does Not Play Dice [with The Universe]. [ger., Gott Wurfelt Nicht.]

Fraulein Noether Was The Most Significant Creative Mathematical Genius Thus Far Produced Since The Higher Education Of Women Began.

We Are Slowed Down Sound And Light Waves, A Walking Bundle Of Frequencies Tuned Into The Cosmos. We Are Souls Dressed Up In Sacred Biochemical Garments And Our Bodies Are The Instruments Through Which Our Souls Play Their Music.

But Without Deeper Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People--first Of All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Is Wholly Dependent, And Then For The Many, Unknown To Us, To Whose Destinies We Are Bound By The Ties Of Sympathy.

The Dog Is Very Smart. He Feels Sorry For Me Because I Receive So Much Mail; That's Why He Tries To Bite The Mailman.

I Do Not At All Believe In Human Freedom In The Philosophical Sense... Schopenhauer’s Saying, ‘a Man Can Do What He Wants, But Not Will What He Wants,’ Has Been A Very Real Inspiration To Me Since My Youth; It Has Been A Continual Consolation In The Face Of Life’s Hardships, My Own And Others’, And An Unfailing Wellspring Of Tolerance. This Realization Mercifully Mitigates The Easily Paralyzing Sense Of Responsibility And Prevents Us From Taking Ourselves And Other People Too Seriously; It Is Conducive To A View Of Life Which, In Part, Gives Humour Its Due.

The Most Difficult Part About Understanding Something Is That We Understand It All.

Information Is Not Knowledge.

Thought Provoking

Most Of The Fundamental Ideas Of Science Are Essentially Simple, And May, As A Rule, Be Expressed In A Language Comprehensible To Everyone.

My Pacifism Is Not Based On Any Intellectual Theory But On A Deep Antipathy To Every Form Of Cruelty And Hatred.

If I Had It [life] To Do All Over Again, I'd Have Been A Plumber.

The Cult Of Individual Personalities Is Always, In My View, Unjustified. To Be Sure, Nature Distributes Her Gifts Variously Among Her Children. But There Are Plenty Of The Well-endowed Ones Too, Thank God, And I Am Firmly Convinced That Most Of Them Live Quiet, Unregarded Lives.

Mozart's Music Is So Pure And Beautiful That I See It As A Reflection Of The Inner Beauty Of The Universe.

To Act Intelligently In Human Affairs Is Only Possible If An Attempt Is Made To Understand The Thoughts, Motives, And Apprehension Of One's Opponent So Fully That One Can See The World Through Their Eyes.

The More Cruel The Wrong That Men Commit Against An Individual Or A People, The Deeper Their Hatred And Contempt For Their Victim.

Knowledge Exists In Two Forms - Lifeless, Stored In Books, And Alive, In The Consciousness Of Men. The Second Form Of Existence Is After All The Essential One; The First, Indispensable As It May Be, Occupies Only An Inferior Position.

Nothing Happens Until Something Moves. When Something Vibrates, The Electrons Of The Entire Universe Resonate With It. Everything Is Connected.

I Cannot Conceive Of A God Who Rewards And Punishes His [sic] Creatures, Or Has A Will Of The Type Of Which We Are Conscious Ourselves.

Memory Is Deceptive Because It Is Colored By Today's Events.

Look Deep Into Nature, And Then You Will Understand Everything Better.

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.

... On Principle, It Is Quite Wrong To Try Founding A Theory On Observable Magnitudes Alone. In Reality The Very Opposite Happens. It Is The Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe.

To Be Free Means To Be Independent, Not To Be Influenced By What Others Think And Say.

Our Defense Is Not In Our Armaments, Nor In Science, Nor In Going Underground. Our Defense Is In Law And Order.

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.

Experience Alone Can Decide On Truth.

As Far As I'm Concerned, I Prefer Silent Vice To Ostentatious Virtue.

God Casts The Die, Not The Dice.

I Do Know That Kind Fate Allowed Me To Find A Couple Of Nice Ideas After Many Years Of Feverish Labor.

[max Planck] Was One Of The Finest People I Have Ever Known... But He Really Didn't Understand Physics, [because] During The Eclipse Of 1919 He Stayed Up All Night To See If It Would Confirm The Bending Of Light By The Gravitational Field. If He Had Really Understood [general Relativity], He Would Have Gone To Bed The Way I Did

I Love Humanity But I Hate Humans

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

One Who Scorns The Power Of Intuition Will Never Rise Above The Ranks Of Journeyman Calculator.

How Vile And Despicable War Seems To Me! I Would Rather Be Hacked To Pieces Than Take Part In Such An Abominable Business.

Nothing Will End War Unless The Peoples Themselves Refuse To Go To War.

... One Does People The Best Service By Giving Them Some Elevating Work To Do And Thus Indirectly Elevating Them.

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.

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

When Forced To Summarize The General Theory Of Relativity In One Sentence: Time And Space And Gravitation Have No Separate Existence From Matter.

I Agree With Schopenhauer That One Of The Most Powerful Motives That Attracts People To Science And Art Is The Longing To Escape From Everyday Life.

The Value Of Achievement Lies In The Achieving.

You Are The Only Person I Know Who Has The Same Attitude Towards Physics As I Have: Belief In The Comprehension Of Reality Through Something Basically Simple And Unified... It Seems Hard To Sneak A Look At God's Cards. But That He Plays Dice And Uses 'telepathic' Methods... Is Something That I Cannot Believe For A Single Moment.

People Are Like Bicycles. They Can Keep Their Balance Only As Long As They Keep Moving.

The Value Of A College Education Is Not The Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think

I See My Life In Terms Of Music.

Pure Mathematics Is, In Its Way, The Poetry Of Logical Ideas.

Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle. To Keep Your Balance, You Must Keep Moving.

The Thing Is, Not To Stop Questioning.

I Wish To Do Something Great And Wonderful, But I Must Start By Doing The Little Things Like They Were Great And Wonderful

Science Has Brought Forth This Danger, But The Real Problem Is In The Minds And Hearts Of Men.

Imagination Is More Valuable Than Information.

You Teach Me Baseball And I'll Teach You Relativity...no We Must Not. You Will Learn About Relativity Faster Than I Learn Baseball.

(reply On What Constitutes Scientific Proof:)"the Question Is Much Too Difficult For Me.

The Only Justifiable Purpose Of Political Institutions Is To Ensure The Unhindered Development Of The Individual.

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.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Imagination Is The Language Of The Soul. Pay Attention To Your Imagination And You Will Discover All You Need To Be Fulfilled.

Do You Really Believe That The Moon Isn’t There When Nobody Looks?

For The Most Part We Humans Live With The False Impression Of Security And A Feeling Of Being At Home In A Seemingly Familiar And Trustworthily Physical And Human Environment. But When The Expected Course Of Everyday Life Is Interrupted, We Realize That We Are Like Shipwrecked People Trying To Keep Their Balance On A Miserable Plank In The Open Sea, Having Forgotten Where They Came From And Not Knowing Whether They Are Drifting. But Once We Fully Accept This, Life Becomes Easier And There Is No Longer Any Disappointment.

We Are Part Of The Whole Which We Call The Universe, But It Is An Optical Delusion Of Our Mind That We Think We Are Separate. This Separateness Is Like A Prison For Us. Our Job Is To Widen The Circle Of Our Compassion So We Feel Connected With All People And Situations.

No Problem Is Ever Solved In The Same Consciousness Thas Was Used To Create It.

Hail To The Man Who Went Through Life Always Helping Others, Knowing No Fear, And To Whom Aggressiveness And Resentment Are Alien. Such Is The Stuff Of Which The Great Moral Leaders Are Made.

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

Only World Law Can Assure Progress Towards A Civilized Peaceful Community.

Scientific Research Is Based On The Idea That Everything That Takes Place Is Determined By Laws Of Nature, And Therefore This Holds For The Action Of People. For This Reason, A Research Scientist Will Hardly Be Inclined To Believe That Events Could Be Influenced By A Prayer, I.e. By A Wish Addressed To A Supernatural Being.

We Have Penetrated Far Less Deeply Into The Regularities Obtaining Within The Realm Of Living Things, But Deeply Enough Nevertheless To Sense At Least The Rule Of Fixed Necessity... What Is Still Lacking Here Is A Grasp Of The Connections Of Profound Generality, But Not A Knowledge Of Order Itself.

If They Want To See Me, Here I Am. If They Want To See My Clothes, Open My Closet And Show Them My Suits.

Only A Monomaniac Gets Anything Done.

From A Certain Temperature On, The Molecules 'condense' Without Attractive Forces; That Is, They Accumulate At Zero Velocity. The Theory Is Pretty, But Is There Some Truth In It.

Science Not Only Purifies The Religious Impulse Of The Dross Of Its Anthropomorphism But Also Contributes To A Religious Spiritualization Of Our Understanding Of Life.

Anthropomorphism

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.

To The Extent Math Refers To Reality, We Are Not Certain To The Extent We Are Certain, Math Does Not Refer To Reality.

That Little Word 'we' I Mistrust And Here's Why: No Man Of Another Can Say, 'he Is I.' Behind All Agreement Lies Something Amiss All Seeming Accord Cloaks A Lurking Abyss.

Reason Is Intuition's Servant.

Nature Hides Her Secrets Because Of Her Essential Loftiness, But Not By Means Of Ruse.

When You Are Courting A Nice Girl An Hour Seems Like A Second. When You Sit On A Red-hot Cinder A Second Seems Like An Hour. That's Relativity.

The Measure Of Intelligence Is The Ability To Change.

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

Natural Wonders

Example Isn't Another Way To Teach, It Is The Only Way To Teach.

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.

Galileo - The Father Of Modern Physics - Indeed Of Modern Science.

The Only Thing That You Absolutely Have To Know, Is The Location Of The Library.

Most People Stop Looking When They Find The Proverbial Needle In The Haystack. I Would Continue Looking To See If There Were Other Needles.

The Armament Industry Is Indeed One Of The Greatest Dangers That Beset Mankind. It Is The Hidden Evil Power.

The Woman Who Follows The Crowd Will Usually Go No Further Than The Crowd. The Woman Who Walks Alone Is Likely To Find Herself In Places No One Has Ever Been Before.

I Have Lived To Prove Thoreau's Contention That A Man Is Rich In Proportion To The Number Of Things Which He Can Afford To Let Alone.

Everybody Is A Genius. But If You Judge A Fish By Its Ability To Climb A Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing That It Is Stupid.

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.

Scientists Investigate That Which Already Is; Engineers Create That Which Has Never Been.

The World We Have Made As A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far Creates Problems That We Cannot Solve At The Same Level At Which We Have Created Them.... We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Humankind Is To Survive.

Only A Life Lived For Others Is A Life Worth While . I Have No Special Gift. I Am Only Passionately Curious . I Want To Know God's Thoughts... All The Rest Are Details. Joy In Looking And Comprehending Is Nature's Most Beautiful Gift. It's Not That I'm So Smart , It's Just That I Stay With Problems Longer.

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.

Mere Praise Of Peace Is Easy And Ineffective. What Is Needed Is Acitve Participation In The Fight Against War And Everything Which Leads To It.

Scarcely Anyone Who Comprehends This Theory Can Escape Its Magic.

Do Not Grow Old, No Matter How Long You Live.

The Normal Objective Of My Thought Affords No Insight Into The Dark Places Of Human Will And Feeling.

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.

More The Knowledge Lesser The Ego, Lesser The Knowledge, More The Ego.

I Never Thought That Others Would Take My Theories So Much More Seriously Than I Did.

Compassionate People Are Geniuses In The Art Of Living, More Necessary To The Dignity, Security, And Joy Of Humanity Than The Discoverers Of Knowledge.

The Most Important Human Endeavor Is The Striving For Morality In Our Actions.

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

Newton Did Not Know What Happened To The Apple, And I Can Prove This When The Next Eclipse Comes.

In The Past It Never Occurred To Me That Every Casual Remark Of Mine Would Be Snatched Up And Recorded. Otherwise I Would Have Crept Further Into My Shell.

Applying The Axioms Of Physical Science To Human Life Has Something Reprehensible To It.

Physical Science

Each Makes This Cosmos And Its Construction The Pivot Of His Emotional Life, In Order To Find In This Way Peace And Security Which He Can Not Find In The Narrow Whirlpool Of Personal Experience.

What A Deep Faith In The Rationality Of The Structure Of The World And What A Longing To Understand Even A Small Glimpse Of The Reason Revealed In The World There Must Have Been In Kepler And Newton To Enable Them To Unravel The Mechanism Of The Heavens In Long Years Of Lonely Work!

Einstein Didn't Speak Until He Was Four, Leading Most Of His Teachers To Believe He Was Crazy. That Is Until He Whipped Out The Theory Of Relativity. Bayum! Showed You Guys.

The State Was Made For Man, Not Man For State.

No One Does Anything Right In Life, Until They Realize That They Are Making A Mistake

Making Mistakes

If One Holds These High Principles Clearly Before One's Eyes, And Compares Them With The Life And Spirit Of Our Times, Then It Appears Glaringly That Civilized Mankind Finds Itself At Present In Grave Danger. In The Totalitarian States It Is The Rulers Themselves Who Strive Actually To Destroy That Spirit Of Humanity. In Less Threatened Parts It Is Nationalism And Intolerance, As Well As The Oppression Of The Individuals By Economic Means, Which Threaten To Choke These Most Precious Traditions.

The Solitude And Peace Of Mind Are Serving Me Quite Well, Not The Least Of Which Is Due To The Excellent And Truly Enjoyable Relationship With My Cousin; Its Stability Will Be Guaranteed By The Avoidance Of Marriage.

Hope That Justice Will Be Done To Those Brave Men Who Stood Up For Their Convictions.

The Ancients Knew Something, Which We Seem To Have Forgotten.

Any Brief Military Advantage The Usa Might Gain With Nuclear Weapons Would Be Offset By Political And Psychological Losses And Damage To American Prestige. The United States Might Even Touch Off A Worldwide Armaments Race.

Degeneracy Follows Every Autocratic System Of Violence, For Violence Inevitably Attracts Moral Inferiors. Time Has Proven That Illustrious Tyrants Are Succeeded By Scoundrels.

Almost All The Other Fellows Do Not Look From The Facts To The Theory But From The Theory To The Facts; They Cannot Get Out Of The Network Of Already Accepted Concepts; Instead, Comically, They Only Wriggle About Inside.

An Oligarchy Of Private Capital Cannot Be Effectively Checked Even By A Democratically Organized Political Society Because Under Existing Conditions, Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information.

What Separates Me From Most So-called Atheists Is A Feeling Of Utter Humility Toward The Unattainable Secrets Of The Harmony Of The Cosmos.

There Is, However, A Somber Point In The Social Outlook Of Americans. Their Sense Of Equality And Human Dignity Is Mainly Limited To People Of White Skin.... The More I Feel Like An American, The More The Situation Pains Me.

Let Me Tell You What I Look Like: Pale Face, Long Hair, And A Tiny Start Of A Paunch. In Addition, An Awkward Gait, And A Cigar In The Mouth And A Pen In Pocket Or Hand.

The More I Learn, The More I Realize I Don't Know.

It Is The Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe

I Am Of The Opinion That All The Finer Speculations In The Realm Of Science Spring From A Deep Religious Feeling, And That Without Such Feeling They Would Not Be Fruitful.

I See In Nature A Magnificent Structure... That Must Fill A Thinking Person With A Feeling Of Humility.

Am I, Or The Others Crazy?

Unlimited Competition Leads To A Huge Waste Of Labor, And To That Crippling Of The Social Consciousness Of Individuals.

I Very Rarely Think In Words At All. A Thought Comes, And I May Try To Express In Words Afterwards.

The Real Problem Is In The Hearts And Minds Of Men. It Is Not A Problem Of Physics But Of Ethics. It Is Easier To Denature Plutonium Than To Denature The Evil Spirit Of Man.

Incompetence Is The True Crisis.

It Is A Miracle That Curiosity Survives Formal Education.

One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion. Herein Lies The Germ Of All Art And All True Science. Anyone To Whom This Feeling Is Alien, Who Is No Longer Capable Of Wonderment And Lives In A State Of Fear Is A Dead Man.

In The Temple Of Science Are Many Mansions, And Various Indeed Are They That Dwell Therein And The Motives That Have Led Them Thither. Many Take To Science Out Of A Joyful Sense Of Superior Intellectual Power; Science Is Their Own Special Sport To Which They Look For Vivid Experience And The Satisfaction Of Ambition; Many Others Are To Be Found In The Temple Who Have Offered The Products Of Their Brains On This Altar For Purely Utilitarian Purposes.

No, This Trick Won't Work... How On Earth Are You Ever Going To Explain In Terms Of Chemistry And Physics So Important A Biological Phenomenon As First Love?

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.

A Mathematical Equation Stands Forever.

Mathematical Equations

The Only Rational Way Of Educating Is To Be An Example. If One Can't Help It, A Warning Example.

The Ideals Which Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed To The Empty. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts — Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury—have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

The Faster You Go, The Shorter You Are.

If I Were To Remain Silent, I'd Be Guilty Of Complicity.

Everybody Acts Not Only Under External Compulsion But Also In Accordance With Inner Necessity.

Conceptions Without Experience Are Void; Experience Without Conceptions Is Blind.

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.

Only The [catholic] Church Stood Squarely Across The Path Of Hitler’s Campaign For Suppressing Truth. I Never Had Any Special Interest In The Church Before, But Now I Feel A Great Affection And Admiration Because The Church Alone Has Had The Courage And Persistence To Stand For Intellectual Truth And Moral Freedom. I Am Forced Thus To Confess That What I Once Despised I Now Praise Unreservedly.

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.

A Woman Is Always Right. But Sometimes Confused Or May Be Misinformed Or Rude Or Stubborn Or Senseless Or Unchangeable About Her Opinions Or Even Down Right Stupid At Times But Never Wrong... She Is Always Right.

So I Am Living Without Fats, Without Meat, Without Fish, But Am Feeling Quite Well This Way. It Always Seems To Me That Man Was Not Born To Be A Carnivore.

The Really Valuable Thing In The Pageant Of Human Life Seems To Me Not The Political State, But The Creative, Sentient Individual, The Personality; It Alone Creates The Noble And The Sublime, While The Herd As Such Remains Dull In Thought And Dull In Feeling.

Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information. It Is Thus Extremely Difficult, And Indeed In Most Cases Quite Impossible, For The Individual Citizen To Come To Objective Conclusions And To Make Intelligent Use Of His Political Rights.

I Have Deep Faith That The Principle Of The Universe Will Be Beautiful And Simple

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves. This Ethical Basis I Call The Ideal Of The Pigsty.

If You Want Your Children To Be Smart, Tell Them Stories. If You Want Them To Be Really Smart, Tell Them More Stories. If You Want Your Children To Be Brilliant, Tell Them Even More Stories.

I Can Understand Your Aversion To The Use Of The Term 'religion' To Describe An Emotional And Psychological Attitude Which Shows Itself Most Clearly In Spinoza... I Have Not Found A Better Expression Than 'religious' For The Trust In The Rational Nature Of Reality That Is, At Least To A Certain Extent, Accessible To Human Reason.

When You Trip Over Love, It Is Easy To Get Up. But When You Fall In Love, It Is Impossible To Stand Again.

We Can Invent As Many Theories We Like, And Any One Of Them Can Be Made To Fit The Facts. But That Theory Is Always Preferred Which Makes The Fewest Number Of Assumptions.

There Are Six-million Shots In The Game Of Pool.

Imagination Without Knowledge May Create Beautiful Things, Knowledge Without Imagination Can Create Only Perfect Ones.

Einstein Was Attending A Music Salon In Germany Before The Second World War, With The Violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese Women Played A German Piece Of Music And A Woman In The Audience Exclaimed: "how Wonderful! It Sounds So German!" Einstein Responded: "madam, People Are All The Same."

A Theory Is The More Impressive The Greater The Simplicity Of Its Premises Is, The More Different Kinds Of Things It Relates, And The More Extended Its Area Of Applicability.

When A Blind Beetle Crawls Over The Surface Of A Globe He Doesn't Notice That The Track He Has Covered Is Curved. I Was Lucky Enough To Have Spotted It.

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