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However We Select From Nature A Complex [of Phenomena] Using The Criterion Of Simplicity, In No Case Will Its Theoretical Treatment Turn Out To Be Forever Appropriate (sufficient).... I Do Not Doubt That The Day Will Come When [general Relativity], Too, Will Have To Yield To Another One, For Reasons Which At Present We Do Not Yet Surmise. I Believe That This Process Of Deepening Theory Has No Limits.

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However We Select From Nature A Complex [of Phenomena] Using The Criterion Of Simplicity, In No Case Will Its Theoretical Treatment Turn Out To Be Forever Appropriate (sufficient).... I Do Not Doubt That The Day Will Come When [general Relativity], Too, Will Have To Yield To Another One, For Reasons Which At Present We Do Not Yet Surmise. I Believe That This Process Of Deepening Theory Has No Limits.

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The Years Of Anxious Searching In The Dark, With Their Intense Longing, Their Alternations Of Confidence And Exhaustion And The Final Emergence Into The Light -- Only Those Who Have Experienced It Can Understand It.

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.

I Am Not More Gifted Than Anybody Else. I Am Just More Curious Than The Average Person And I Will Not Give Up A Problem Until I Have Found The Proper Solution.

The Comprehensibility Of The World Seems To Me A Wonder Or Eternal Secret. Here Lies The Sense Of Wonder Which Increases Even More With The Development Of Our Knowledge.

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

The Only Thing That Interferes With My Learning Is My Education.

[mystery] Is The Fundamental Emotion That Stands At The Cradle Of True Art And True Science.

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Physics Is Essentially An Intuitive And Concrete Science. Mathematics Is Only A Means For Expressing The Laws That Govern Phenomena.

Anybody Who Really Wants To Abolish War Must Resolutely Declare Himself In Favor Of His Own Country's Resigning A Portion Of Sovereignty In Place Of International Institutions.

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

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.

Enough For Me Is The Mystery Of The Eternity Of Life, And The Inkling Of The Marvelous Structure Of Reality. There Is In This Neither A Will Nor A Goal, Nor A Must, But Only Sheer Being.

Eternity Of Life

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.

It Is High Time The Ideal Of Success Should Be Replaced With The Ideal Of Service.

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

I Never Think Of The Future - It Comes Soon Enough.

A World Government With Powers Adequate To Guarantee Security Is Not A Remote Ideal For The Distant Future. It Is An Urgent Necessity If Our Civilization Is To Survive.

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The Most Aggravating Thing About The Younger Generation Is That I No Longer Belong To It.

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In My Opinion There Is No Other Salvation For Civilization And Even For The Human Race Than The Creation Of A World Government With Security On The Basis Of Law. As Long As There Are Sovereign States With Their Separate Armaments And Armament Secrets, New World Wars Cannot Be Avoided.

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It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. If Something Is In Me Which Can Be Called Religious Then It Is The Unbounded Admiration For The Structure Of The World So Far As Our Science Can Reveal It.

One Should Guard Against Preaching To Young People Success In The Customary Form As The Main Aim In Life. The Most Important Motive For Work In School And In Life Is Pleasure In Work, Pleasure In Its Result, And The Knowledge Of The Value Of The Result To The Community.

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Everybody Felt His Superiority, But Nobody Felt Oppressed By It. Though He Had No Illusions About People And Human Affairs, He Was Full Of Kindness Toward Everybody And Everything. Never Did He Give The Impression Of Domineering, Always Of Serving And Helping. He Was Extremely Conscientious, Without Allowing Anything To Assume Undue Importance; A Subtle Humor Guarded Him, Which Was Reflected In His Eyes And In His Smile.

I Am Convinced There Is Only One Way To Eliminate These Grave Evils, Namely Through The Establishment Of A Socialist Economy, Accompanied By An Educational System Which Would Be Oriented Toward Social Goals.

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You Cannot Simultaneously Prevent And Prepare For War. The Very Prevention Of War Requires More Faith, Courage And Resolution Than Are Needed To Prepare For War. We Must All Do Our Share, That We May Be Equal To The Task Of Peace.

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It's Not That I'm So Smart, It's Just That I Stay With Problems Longer.

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Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge.

Those Instrumental Goods Which Should Serve To Maintain The Life And Health Of All Human Beings Should Be Produced By The Least Possible Labour Of All.

There Has Been An Earth For A Little More Than A Billion Years. As For The Question Of The End Of It I Advise: Wait And See!

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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.

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self.

The Last Thing To Collapse Is The Surface.

I Believe The Most Important Mission Of The State Is To Protect The Individual And Make It Possible For Him To Develop Into A Creative Personality.

Insanity: Doing The Same Thing Over And Over Again And Expecting Different Results.

Joy In Looking And Comprehending Is Nature's Most Beautiful Gift.

I Always Have A High Regard For The Individual And Have An Insuperable Distaste For Violence And Clubmanship. All These Motives Made Me Into A Passionate Pacifist And Anti-militarist. I Am Against Any Nationalism, Even In The Guise Of Mere Patriotism. Privileges Based On Position And Property Have Always Seemed To Me Unjust And Pernicious, As Did Any Exaggerated Personality Cult.

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I Always Found I Was In The Best Of Company, Alone.

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The Only Way To Escape The Corruptible Effect Of Praise Is To Go On Working.

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Failure Is Only Postponed Success As Long As Courage 'coaches' Ambition.

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Women Marry Men Hoping They Will Change. Men Marry Women Hoping They Will Not.

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Without Changing Our Pattern Of Thought, We Will Not Be Able To Solve The Problems We Created With Our Current Patterns Of Thought

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[misquotation; Not By Einstein.] If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker. [apparently Remorseful For His Role In The Development Of The Atom Bomb.]

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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.

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One Must Take What Nature Gives As One Finds It.

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Even If You Have To Go Through Hell - Go Without Hesitation.

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The True Measure Of A Man Is The Degree To Which He Has Managed To Subjugate His Ego.

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.

Condemnation Before Investigation Is The Highest Form Of Ignorance.

My Feeling Is Religious Insofar As I Am Imbued With The Consciousness Of The Insufficiency Of The Human Mind To Understand More Deeply The Harmony Of The Universe Which We Try To Formulate As "laws Of Nature".

You Can Never Solve A Problem With The Same Kind Of Thinking That Created The Problem In The First Place.

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You Cannot Love A Car The Way You Love A Horse. The Horse Brings Out Human Feelings The Way Machines Cannot Do. Things Like Machines May Develop Or Neglect Certain Things In People ... Machines Make Our Life Impersonal And Stultify Certain Elements In Us And Create An Impersonal Environment.

You Cannot Solve Current Problems With Current Thinking. Current Problems Are The Result Of Current Thinking.

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

The State Idea Is Not According To My Heart. I Cannot Understand Why It Is Needed. It Is Connected With Narrow-minded And Economic Obstacles. I Believe It Is Bad. I Have Always Been Against It.

The Physicist's Greatest Tool Is His Wastebasket.

Stupidity Is A Personal Achievement Which Transcends National Boundaries.

[when Asked "dr. Einstein, Why Is It That When The Mind Of Man Has Stretched So Far As To Discover The Structure Of The Atom We Have Been Unable To Devise The Political Means To Keep The Atom From Destroying Us?"] That Is Simple, My Friend. It Is Because Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

Of What Significance Is One's Existence, One Is Basically Unaware. What Does A Fish Know About The Water In Which He Swims All His Life? The Bitter And The Sweet Come From Outside. The Hard From Within, From One's Own Efforts. For The Most Part I Do What My Own Nature Drives Me To Do. It Is Embarrassing To Earn Such Respect And Love For It.

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."

It May Be Possible To Fight Intolerance, Stupidity, And Fanaticism Seperately, But When They Come Together There Is No Hope.

The Most Important Human Endeavor Is The Striving For Morality In Our Actions. Our Inner Balance And Even Our Very Existence Depend On It. Only Morality In Our Actions Can Give Beauty And Dignity To Life. To Make This A Living Force And Bring It To Clear Consciousness Is Perhaps The Foremost Task Of Education. The Foundation Of Morality Should Not Be Made Dependent On Myth Nor Tied To Any Authority Lest Doubt About The Myth Or About The Legitimacy Of The Authority Imperil The Foundation Of Sound Judgment And Action.

Quantum Mechanics Is Certainly Imposing. But An Inner Voice Tells Me That This Is Not Yet The Real Thing. The Theory Says A Lot, But Does Not Bring Us Any Closer To The Secrets Of The "old One." I, At Any Rate, Am Convinced That He Is Not Playing At Dice.

While I Am A Convinced Pacifist There Are Circumstances In Which I Believe The Use Of Force Is Appropriate - Namely, In The Face Of An Enemy Unconditionally Bent On Destroying Me And My People.

The Mind Can Proceed Only So Far Upon What It Knows And Can Prove. There Comes A Point Where The Mind Takes A Higher Plane Of Knowledge, But Can Never Prove How It Got There. All Great Discoveries Have Involved Such A Leap

Our Lives Will Be Measured By What We Do For Others

If You Want The Answer To Anything, Go Sit In Nature For Awhile

As I Look Back Over The Truly Crucial Events In My Life I Realize That They Were Not Planned Long In Advance. Albert Einstein Said, 'there Are Only Two Ways To Live Your Life. One Is As Though Nothing Is A Miracle. The Other Is As Though Everything Is.'

Innovation Is Everyones Responsibility, Not Just R&ds.

Be A Loner. That Gives You Time To Wonder.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work Is The] Most Profound And The Most Fruitful.

Belief In An External World Independent Of The Perceiving Subject Is The Basis Of All Natural Science.

How Many People Are Trapped In Their Everyday Habits: Part Numb, Part Frightened, Part Indifferent? To Have A Better Life We Must Keep Choosing How We Are Living.

Why Does This Magnificent Applied Science Which Saves Work And Makes Life Easier Bring Us So Little Happiness? ... The Simple Answer Runs: 'because We Have Not Yet Learned To Make Sensible Use Of It.'

Music Has No Effect On Research Work, But Both Are Born Of The Same Source And Complement Each Other Through The Satisfaction They Bestow

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.

... A Person Who Is Religiously Enlightened Appears To Me To Be One Who Has, To The Best Of His Ability, Liberated Himself From The Fetters Of His Selfish Desires And Is Preoccupied With Thoughts, Feelings, And Aspirations To Which He Clings Because Of Their Superpersonal Value.

I Agree With Your Remark About Loving Your Enemy As Far As Actions Are Concerned. But For Me The Cognitive Basis Is The Trust In An Unrestricted Causality. 'i Cannot Hate Him, Because He Must Do What He Does.' That Means For Me More Spinoza Than The Prophets.

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

It Is Nothing Short Of A Miracle That Modern Methods Of Teaching Have Not Yet Entirely Strangled That Sacred Spirit Of Curiosity And Inquiry, For This Delicate Plant Needs Freedom No Less Than Stimulation.

My Sense Of God Is My Sense Of Wonder About The Universe.

Sense Of Wonder

Man Is, At One And The Same Time, A Solitary Being And A Social Being. As A Solitary Being, He Attempts To Protect His Own Existence And That Of Those Who Are Closest To Him, To Satisfy His Personal Desires, And To Develop His Innate Abilities. As A Social Being, He Seeks To Gain The Recognition And Affection Of His Fellow Human Beings, To Share In Their Pleasures, To Comfort Them In Their Sorrows, And To Improve Their Conditions Of Life.

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.

Even The Scholars In Various Lands Have Been Acting As If Their Brains Had Been Amputated.

Well-being And Happiness Never Appeared To Me As An Absolute Aim. I Am Even Inclined To Compare Such Moral Aims To The Ambitions Of A Pig.

What Humanity Owes To Personalities Like Buddha, Moses, And Jesus Ranks For Me Higher Than All The Achievements Of The Enquiring And Constructive Mind.

One Cannot Learn So Well As By Experiencing It Oneself.

The Genius Is In Making The Complex Simple.

Hunger, Love, Pain, Fear Are Some Of Those Inner Forces Which Rule The Individual's Instinct For Self Preservation.

The Fairest Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious. It Is The Fundamental Emotion That Stands At The Cradle Of True Art And True Science. It Is The Source Of All True Art And Science. He Who Knows It Not And Can No Longer Wonder, No Longer Feel Amazement, Is As Good As Dead, A Snuffed-out Candle.

It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge.

Children Don’t Heed The Life Experiences Of Their Parents, And Nations Ignore History. Bad Lessons Always Have To Be Learned Anew.

Happiness, As A Pursuit, Is Suitable Only For Pigs.

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

The Number Of Natural Hypothesis That Can Explain Any Given Phenomena Is Infinite.

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.

Loving Is Not Just Looking At Each Other, It's Looking In The Same Direction. -antoine De Saint-exupéry, “you Are Blessed Doublee If You Are In Love” - Honeya “gravitation Is Not Responsible For People Falling In Love.

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The Creative Scientist Studies Nature With The Rapt Gaze Of The Lover, And Is Guided As Often By Aesthetics As By Rational Considerations In Guessing How Nature Works.

Mathematics Are Well And Good But Nature Keeps Dragging Us Around By The Nose.

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.

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

For Scientific Endeavor Is A Natural Whole The Parts Of Which Mutually Support One Another In A Way Which, To Be Sure, No One Can Anticipate.

Democracy, Taken In Its Narrower, Purely Political, Sense, Suffers From The Fact That Those In Economic And Political Power Possess The Means For Molding Public Opinion To Serve Their Own Class Interests. The Democratic Form Of Government In Itself Does Not Automatically Solve Problems; It Offers, However, A Useful Framework For Their Solution. Everything Depends Ultimately On The Political And Moral Qualities Of The Citizenry.

My Interest In Science Was Always Essentially Limited To The Study Of Principles.... That I Have Published So Little Is Due To This Same Circumstance, As The Great Need To Grasp Principles Has Caused Me To Spend Most Of My Time On Fruitless Pursuits.

Anyone Who Thinks Science Is Trying To Make Human Life Easier Or More Pleasant Is Utterly Mistaken.

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

You Have To Learn The Rules Of The Game. And Then You Have To Play Better Than Anyone Else.

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun.

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

Our Schoolbooks Glorify War And Conceal Its Horrors. They Indoctrinate Children With Hatred. I Would Teach Peace Rather Than War, Love Rather Than Hate.

Your Ancestors Dragged These Black People From Their Homes By Force; And In The White Man's Quest For Wealth And An Easy Life They Have Been Ruthlessly Suppressed And Exploited, Degraded Into Slavery. The Modern Prejudice Against Negroes Is The Result Of The Desire To Maintain This Unworthy Condition.

Persistence Is The Most Powerful Force On Earth, It Can Move Mountains.

Common Sense Needs Constant Reappraisal.

Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose. From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That Man Is Here For The Sake Of Other Men - Above All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Depends.

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

Man Like Every Other Animal Is By Nature Indolent. If Nothing Spurs Him On, Then He Will Hardly Think, And Will Behave From Habit Like An Automaton.

The World Is In Greater Peril From Those Who Tolerate Or Encourage Evil Than From Those Who Actually Commit It.

It's Very Depressing To Live In A Time Where It's Easier To Break An Atom Than A Prejudice.

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

Physical Science

To A Student: Dear Miss - I Have Read About Sixteen Pages Of Your Manuscript . . . I Suffered Exactly The Same Treatment At The Hands Of My Teachers Who Disliked Me For My Independence And Passed Over Me When They Wanted Assistants. . . . Keep Your Manuscript For Your Sons And Daughters, In Order That They May Derive Consolation From It And Not Give A Damn For What Their Teachers Tell Them Or Think Of Them. . . . There Is Too Much Education Altogether.

Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism - How Passionately I Hate Them!

Thanks To My Fortunate Idea Of Introducing The Relativity Principle Into Physics, You (and Others) Now Enormously Overrate My Scientific Abilities, To The Point Where This Makes Me Quite Uncomfortable.

If A Is A Success In Life, Then A Equals X Plus Y Plus Z. Work Is X; Y Is Play; And Z Is Keeping Your Mouth Shut

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

I Believe In Spinoza's God, Who Reveals Himself In The Lawful Harmony Of The World, Not In A God Who Concerns Himself With The Fate And The Doings Of Mankind... To Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

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 Fully Suffice. This Disgrace To Civilization Should Be Done Away With At Once. Heroism At Command, Senseless Brutality, Deplorable Love-of-country Stance, How Violently I Hate All This, How Despicable And Ignoble War Is; I Would Rather Be Torn To Shreds Than Be A Part Of So Base An Action! It Is My Conviction That Killing Under The Cloak Of War Is Nothing But An Act Of Murder.

The Wing Structure Of The Hornet, In Relation To Its Weight, Is Not Suitable For Flight, But He Does Not Know This And Flies Anyway.

We Experience Ourselves Our Thoughts And Feelings As Something Separate From The Rest. A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness. This Delusion Is A Kind Of Prison For Us, Restricting Us To Our Personal Desires And To Affection For A Few Persons Nearest To Us.

From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That We Are Here For The Sake Of Each Other - Above All For Those Upon Whose Smile And Well-being Our Own Happiness Depends, And Also For The Countless Unknown Souls With Whose Fate We Are Connected By A Bond Of Sympathy. Many Times A Day I Realize How Much My Own Outer And Inner Life Is Built Upon The Labors Of My Fellow Men, Both Living And Dead, And How Earnestly I Must Exert Myself In Order To Give In Return As Much As I Have Received.

Marie Curie Is, Of All Celebrated Beings, The Only One Whom Fame Has Not Corrupted.

I Believe In Mystery And, Frankly, I Sometimes Face This Mystery With Great Fear. In Other Words, I Think That There Are Many Things In The Universe That We Cannot Perceive Or Penetrate, And That Also We Experience Some Of The Most Beautiful Things In Life Only In A Very Primitive Form. Only In Relation To These Mysteries Do I Consider Myself To Be A Religious Man.

The Sceptic Will Say, 'it May Well Be True That This System Of Equations Is Reasonable From A Logical Standpoint, But This Does Not Prove That It Corresponds To Nature.' You Are Right, Dear Sceptic. Experience Alone Can Decide On Truth.

Toreador Pants Make Your Feet Look Big Too

Schools Need Not Preach Political Doctrine To Defend Democracy. If They Shape Men Capable Of Critical Thought And Trained In Social Attitudes, That Is All That Is Necessary.

Incompetence Is The True Crisis.

Scientific Research Can Reduce Superstition By Encouraging People To Think And View Things In Terms Of Cause And Effect.

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.

When You Look At Yourself From A Universal Standpoint, Something Inside Always Reminds Or Informs You That There Are Bigger And Better Things To Worry About.

If We Knew What It Was We Were Doing, It Would Not Be Called Research, Would It?

Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun.

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

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.

I Once Thought That If I Could Ask God One Question, I Would Ask How The Universe Began, Because Once I Knew That, All The Rest Is Simply Equations. But As I Got Older I Became Less Concerned With How The Universe Began. Rather, I Would Want To Know Why He Started The Universe. For Once I Knew That Answer, Then I Would Know The Purpose Of My Own Life.

The Main Task Of The Spirit Is To Free Man From His Ego.

When The Solution Is Simple, God Is Answering.

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.

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

Work Is The Only Thing That Gives Substance To Life.

Time Does Not Exist - We Invented It

Although I Am A Typical Loner In My Daily Life, My Awareness Of Belonging To The Invisible Community Of Those Who Strive For Truth, Beauty, And Justice Has Prevented Me From Feelings Of Isolation.

Playfullness Is The Essential Feature Of Productive Thought.

In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God, That Is, Give Up That Source Of Fear And Hope Which In The Past Placed Such Vast Power In The Hands Of Priests. In Their Labors They Will Have To Avail Themselves Of Those Forces Which Are Capable Of Cultivating The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In Humanity Itself. This Is, To Be Sure, A More Difficult But An Incomparably More Worthy Task.

The Facts, Although Interesting, Are Irrelevant.

I Must Seem Like An Ostrich Who Forever Burries Its Head In The Relativistic Sands In Order Not To Face The Evil Quanta.

Every Thoughtful, Well-meaning And Conscientious Human Being Should Assume In Time Of Peace, The Solemn And Unconditional Obligation Not To Participate In Any War, For Any Reason Or To Lend Support Of Any Kind, Whether Direct Or Indirect.

We Are All Life Trying To Live, Among Other Life Trying To Live.

When I Read The Bhagavad-gita And Reflect About How God Created This Universe Everything Else Seems So Superfluous

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