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I Was Sitting In A Chair In The Patent Office At Bern When All Of A Sudden A Thought Occurred To Me: "if A Person Falls Freely He Will Not Feel His Own Weight." I Was Startled. This Simple Thought Made A Deep Impression On Me. It Impelled Me Toward A Theory Of Gravitation.

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I Was Sitting In A Chair In The Patent Office At Bern When All Of A Sudden A Thought Occurred To Me: "if A Person Falls Freely He Will Not Feel His Own Weight." I Was Startled. This Simple Thought Made A Deep Impression On Me. It Impelled Me Toward A Theory Of Gravitation.

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I Am An Adherent Of The Ideal Of Democracy, Although I Well Know The Weaknesses Of The Democratic Form Of Government. Social Equality And Economic Protection Of The Individual Appeared To Me Always As The Important Communal Aims Of The State. Although I Am A Typical Loner In Daily Life, My Consciousness Of Belonging To The Invisible Community Of Those Who Strive For Truth, Beauty, And Justice Has Preserved Me From Feeling Isolated.

We Have To Do The Best We Are Capable Of. This Is Our Sacred Human Responsibility.

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The Tragedy Of Life Is What Dies In The Hearts And Souls Of People While They Live.

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.

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I Am Also Convinced That One Gains The Purest Joy From Spirited Things Only When They Are Not Tied In With Earning One's Livelihood.

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

If You Want Different Results, Do Not Do The Same Things.

Smoke Like A Chimney, Work Like A Horse, Eat Without Thinking, Go For A Walk Only In Really Pleasant Company.

Relativity Is A Purely Scientific Matter And Has Nothing To Do With Religion.

If We Trace Out What We Behold And Experience Through The Language Of Logic, We Are Doing Science; If We Show It In Forms Whose Interrelashionships Are Not Accessible To Our Conscious Thought But We Are Intuitively Recognized As Meaningful, We Are Doing Art.

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

Energy Cannot Be Created Or Destroyed, It Can Only Be Changed From One Form To Another.

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The Moon Does Not Simply Disappear When We Are Not Looking At It.

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

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I Was Supposed To Choose Apractical Profession, But This Was Simply Unbearable To Me.

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But Then, After All, We Are All Alike, For We Are All Derived From The Monkey.

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The Essentials Of Being A Person Of My Type Lies Precisely In What They Think And How They Think, Not In What They Do. Your Thoughts Shape You.

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.

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Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

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The Next World War Will Be Fought With Stones.

The Most Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning.

The Family That Prays Together...is Brainwashing Their Children.

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

To Take Those Fools In Clerical Garb Seriously Is To Show Them Too Much Honor.

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Experience Is Knowledge. All The Rest Is Information.

Combinatory Play Seems To Be The Essential Feature In Productive Thought.

It Is Really A Puzzle What Drives One To Take One's Work So Devilishly Seriously.

The Problems Of Today Can Only Be Solved At A Higher Level Of Thinking Than That Which Created Them

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

It Has Become Appallingly Obvious That Our Technology Has Exceeded Our Humanity.

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... We Will Hope That Future Historians Will Explain The Morbid Symptoms Of Present-day Society As The Childhood Ailments Of An Aspiring Humanity, Due Entirely To The Excessive Speed At Which Civilization Was Advancing.

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New Frameworks Are Like Climbing A Mountain - The Larger View Encompasses Rather Than Rejects The More Restricted View.

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A Perfection Of Means, And Confusion Of Aims, Seems To Be Our Main Problem.

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The True Value Of A Human Being Can Be Found In The Degree To Which He Has Attained Liberation From The Self.

Artists And Creative Workers - People Who Have Accomplished Work Worthwhile Have Had A Very High Sense Of The Way To Do Things. They Haven't Been Contented With Mediocrity. They Haven't Confined Themselves To The Beaten Tracks; They Have Never Been Satisfied To Do Things Just As Others Do Them, But Always A Little Better. Few Are Those Who See With Their Own Eyesand Feel With Their Own Hearts.

A Photograph Never Grows Old. You And I Change, People Change All Through The Months And Years But A Photograph Always Remains The Same. How Nice To Look At A Photograph Of Mother Or Father Taken Many Years Ago. You See Them As You Remember Them. But As People Live On, They Change Completely. That Is Why I Think A Photograph Can Be Kind.

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

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.

Remember Today, For It Is The Beginning Of Always. Today Marks The Start Of A Brave New Future Filled With All Your Dreams Can Hold. Think Truly To The Future And Make Those Dreams Come True.

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

Only A Life Lived For Others Is A Life Worthwhile.

When I Was A Fairly Precocious Young Man I Became Thoroughly Impressed With The Futility Of The Hopes And Strivings That Chase Most Men Restlessly Through Life. Moreover, I Soon Discovered The Cruelty Of That Chase, Which In Those Years Was Much More Carefully Covered Up By Hypocrisy And Glittering Words Than Is The Case Today. By The Mere Existence Of His Stomach Everyone Was Condemned To Participate In That Chase. The Stomach Might Well Be Satisfied By Such Participation, But Not Man Insofar As He Is A Thinking And Feeling Being.

We Are In The Position Of A Little Child Entering A Huge Library, Whose Walls Are Covered To The Ceiling With Books In Many Different Languages. The Child Knows That Someone Must Have Written Those Books. It Does Not Know Who Or How. It Does Not Understand The The Languages In Which They Are Written. The Child Notes A Definite Plan In The Arrangement Of The Books, A Mysterious Order, Which It Does Not Comprehend But Only Dimly Suspects.

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

We Must Learn To See The World Anew.

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

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It Has Often Been Said, And Certainly Not Without Justification, That The Man Of Science Is A Poor Philosopher.

I Have No Special Talent. I Am Only Passionately Curious.

This Is A Question Too Difficult For A Mathematician. It Should Be Asked Of A Philosopher"(when Asked About Completing His Income Tax Form)

It's No Accident That Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge. Egoism And Competition Are, Alas, Stronger Forces Than Public Spirit And Sense Of Duty.

Knowledge Is Limited.

It Seems To Me That The Idea Of A Personal God Is An Anthropological Concept Which I Cannot Take Seriously. I Also Cannot Imagine Some Will Or Goal Outside The Human Sphere... Science Has Been Charged With Undermining Morality, But The Charge Is Unjust. A Man's Ethical Behavior Should Be Based Effectually On Sympathy, Education, And Social Ties And Needs; No Religious Basis Is Necessary. Man Would Indeed Be In A Poor Way If He Had To Be Restrained By Fear Of Punishment And Hope Of Reward After Death.

We Cannot Despair Of Humanity, Since We Ourselves Are Human Beings.

In Every True Searcher Of Nature There Is A Kind Of Religious Reverence.

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

Dostoevsky Gives Me More Than Any Scientist, More Than Gauss.

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

A Priori One Should Expect A Chaotic World Which Cannot Be Grasped By The Mind In Any Way... The Kind Of Order Created By Newton's Theory Of Gravitation...is Wholly Different. Even If The Axioms Of The Theory Are Proposed By Man, The Success Of Such A Project Presupposes A High Degree Of Ordering Of The Objective World.... That Is The "miracle" Which Is Being Constantly Reinforced As Our Knowledge Expands.

Many A Young Lady Does Not Realize Just How Strong Her Love For A Young Man Is Until He Fails To Pass The Approval Test With Her Parents. There Is No Fear In Love; But Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear. Of All Forms Of Caution, Caution In Love Is The Most Fatal. There Are Only Two Truly Infinite Things, The Universe And Stupidity. And I Am Unsure About The Universe.

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

I Cannot Seriously Believe In It [quantum Theory] Because The Theory Cannot Be Reconciled With The Idea That Physics Should Represent A Reality In Time And Space, Free From Spooky Actions At A Distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

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

A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole Called By Us Universe; A Part Limited In Time And Space. He Experiences Himself, His Thoughts, And His Feelings As Something Separate From The Rest - A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness.

Freedom Of Teaching And Of Opinion In Book Or Press Is The Foundation For The Sound And Natural Development Of Any People.

I Would Not Think That Philosophy And Reason Themselves Will Be Man's Guide In The Foreseeable Future; However, They Will Remain The Most Beautiful Sanctuary They Have Always Been For The Select Few.

There Is Separation Of Colored People From White People In The United States. That Separation Is Not A Disease Of Colored People. It Is A Disease Of White People. I Do Not Intend To Be Quiet About It.

If I Could Remember The Names Of All These Particles, I'd Be A Botanist.

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

I Cannot Then Believe In This Concept Of An Anthropomorphic God Who Has The Powers Of Interfering With These Natural Laws. As 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.

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

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 Use Are Socks? They Only Produce Holes.

He Who Joyfully Marches To Music In Rank And File Has Already Earned My Contempt. He Has Been Given A Large Brain By Mistake, Since For Him The Spinal Cord Would Suffice.

He Who 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.

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

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

Mere Unbelief In A Personal God Is No Philosophy At All.

Often In Evolutionary Processes A Species Must Adapt To New Conditions In Order To Survive. Today The Atomic Bomb Has Altered Profoundly The Nature Of The World As We Know It, And The Human Race Consequently Finds Itself In A New Habitat To Which It Must Adapt Its Thinking.

Science Will Stagnate If It Is Made To Serve Practical Goals.

We Must Dedicate Our Lives To Drying Up The Source Of War: Ammunition Factories.

It Is Our American Habit If We Find The Foundations Of Our Educational Structure Unsatisfactory To Add Another Story Or Wing.

You Ask Me If I Keep A Notebook To Record My Great Ideas. I've Only Ever Had One.

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!

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.

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

If At First The Idea Is Not Absurd, Then There Is No Hope For It.

We Will Never Be Able To Solve The Problems Of Tomorrow With The Thinking Of Today

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.

I Recently Discussed With An Intelligent And Well-disposed Man The Threat Of Another War, Which In My Opinion Would Seriously Endanger The Existence Of Mankind, And I Remarked That Only A Supranational Organization Would Offer Protection From That Danger. Thereupon My Visitor, Very Calmly And Coolly, Said To Me: "why Are You So Deeply Opposed To The Disappearance Of The Human Race?".

The School Has Always Been The Most Important Means Of Transferring The Wealth Of Tradition From One Generation To The Next. This Applies Today In An Even Higher Degree Than In Former Times, For Through Modern Development Of Economic Life, The Family

You Cannot Simultaneously Prevent And Prepare For War.

I Like The Swiss Because By And Large They Are More Humane Than The Other People Aming Whom I Have Lived.

A Large Part Of Our Attitude Toward Things Is Conditioned By Opinions And Emotions Which We Unconsciously Absorb As Children From Our Environment. In Other Words, It Is Tradition—besides Inherited Aptitudes And Qualities—which Makes Us What We Are. We But Rarely Reflect How Relatively Small As Compared With The Powerful Influence Of Tradition Is The Influence Of Our Conscious Thought Upon Our Conduct And Convictions.

Fortunate Newton, Happy Childhood Of Science. Nature To Him Was An Open Book. He Stands Before Us Strong, Certain, And Alone.

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?

Gravity Is A Response To Geometry.

Only The Catholic Church Protested Against The Hitlerian Onslaught On Liberty. Up Till Then I Had Not Been Interested In The Church, But Today I Feel A Great Admiration For The Church, Which Alone Has Had The Courage To Struggle For Spiritual Truth And Moral Liberty

That Deep Emotional Conviction Of The Presence Of A Superior Reasoning Power, Which Is Revealed In The Incomprehensible Universe, Forms My Idea Of God.

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.

As Our Circle Of Knowledge Expands, So Does The Circumference Of Darkness Surrounding It.

If This Being Is Omnipotent, Then Every Occurrence, Including Every Human Action, Every Human Thought, And Every Human Feeling And Aspiration Is Also His Work; How Is It Possible To Think Of Holding Men Responsible For Their Deeds And Thoughts Before Such An Almighty Being? In Giving Out Punishment And Rewards He Would To A Certain Extent Be Passing Judgment On Himself. How Can This Be Combined With The Goodness And Righteousness Ascribed To Him?

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