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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.

-Albert Einstein

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Loving Is Not Just

Albert Einstein

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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 Minority, The Ruling Class At Present, Has The Schools And Press, Usually The Church As Well, Under Its Thumb. This Enables It To Organize And Sway The Emotions Of The Masses, And Make Its Tool Of Them.

Indeed, It Is Not Intellect, But Intuition Which Advances Humanity. Intuition Tells Man His Purpose In This Life.

The Special Theory Of Relativity Owes Its Origins To Maxwell's Equations Of The Electromagnetic Field.

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

The Great Moral Teachers Of Humanity Were In A Way Artistic Geniuses In The Art Of Living.

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.

There Is No Scientific Antidote, Only Education. You've Got To Change The Way People Think. I Am Not Interested In Disarmament Talks Between Nations . . . What I Want To Do Is To Disarm The Mind. After That, Everything Else Will Automatically Follow. The Ultimate Weapon For Such Mental Disarmament Is International Education.

Older Men Start Wars, But Younger Men Fight Them.

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.

If I Would Be A Young Man Again And Had To Decide How To Make My Living, I Would Not Try To Become A Scientist Or Scholar Or Teacher. I Would Rather Choose To Be A Plumber Or A Peddler In Hope To Find That Modest Degree Of Independence Still Available Under Present Circumstances.

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

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.

A Problem Cannot Be Solved At The Level Of Consciousness In Which It Occurs.

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

Go Out As Far As You Can Go And Start From There

Failure Is Success In Progress

It Is Easier To Denature Plutonium Than To Denature The Evil Spirit Of Man.

I'd Rather Be An Optimist And A Fool Than A Pessimist And Right.

Thought Provoking

I Do Not Believe In The God Of Theology Who Rewards Good And Punishes Evil. My God Created Laws That Take Care Of That. His Universe Is Not Ruled By Wishful Thinking, But By Immutable Laws.

The Idea Of A Personal God Is Quite Alien To Me And Seems Even Naïve.

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

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 Man Who Regards His Own Life And That Of His Fellow-creatures As Meaningless Is Not Merely Unfortunate But Almost Disqualified For Life.

My Intellectual Development Was Retarded, As A Result Of Which I Began To Wonder About Space And Time Only When I Had Already Grown Up.

Whoever Undertakes To Set Himself Up As A Judge Of Truth And Knowledge Is Shipwrecked By The Laughter Of The Gods.

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

I Believe That The First Step In The Setting Of A Real External World Is The Formation Of The Concept Of Bodily Objects And Of Bodily Objects Of Various Kinds.

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.

Physical Concepts Are Free Creations Of The Human Mind, And Are Not, However It May Seem, Uniquely Determined By The External World.

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.

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

The Power Of Imagination Is The Ultimate Creative Power.. No Doubt About That. While Knowledge Defines All We Currently Know And Understand.. Imagination Points To All We Might Yet Discover And Create. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Your Imagination Is Your Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions

The Most Important Question A Person Can Ask Is, "is The Universe A Friendly Place?

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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.

The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift And The Rational Mind Is A Faithful Servant. We Have Created A Society That Honors The Servant And Has Forgotten The Gift. We Will Not Solve The Problems Of The World From The Same Level Of Thinking We Were At When We Created Them. More Than Anything Else, This New Century Demands New Thinking: We Must Change Our Materially Based Analyses Of The World Around Us To Include Broader, More Multidimensional Perspectives.

Faithful Servants

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 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.

You Can't Blame Gravity For Falling In Love.

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.

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

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

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

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

You Believe In A God That Plays Dice; I Believe In Law & Order.

I Have No Extraordinary Ability. I'm Simply An Inquisitive Individual.

You Can't Solve Your Problems By Using The Same Thinking That Got You Into Those Problems In The First Place.

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

One Can't Teach A Cat Not To Catch Birds

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.

Great Spirits Have Always Found Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds. The Latter Cannot Understand It When A Man Does Not Thoughtlessly Submit To Hereditary Prejudices But Honestly And Courageously Uses His Intelligence.

The World We Have Made Is A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far.

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

I Live In That Solitude Which Is Painful In Youth, But Delicious In The Years Of Maturity.

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

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The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. The Religion Which Based On Experience, Which Refuses Dogmatic. If There's Any Religion That Would Cope The Scientific Needs It Will Be Buddhism.

One Cannot Help But Be In Awe When [one] Contemplates The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Reality.

The Thinking It Took To Get Us Into This Mess Is Not The Same Thinking That Is Going To Get Us Out Of It.

For An Idea Which, At First, Does Not Seem Absurd, There Is No Hope.

I'm No More Intelligent Than The Next Guy. I'm Just More Curious.

Love Is Not The Stupidest Thing A Man Does, But It Cannot Be Blamed On Gravity.

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From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That We Are Here For The Sake Of Each Other.

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun.

I Have Become An Obstinate Heretic In The Eyes Of My Colleagues. Momentary Success Carries More Power Of Conviction Than Reflections Upon Principles.

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.

How Can He Possibly Be Humble? He Hasn't Done Anything Yet.

It Is Impossible To Get Anywhere Without Sinning Against Reason.

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The Ways Of Creation Are Wrapt In Mystery. We May Only Marvel, And Bow Our Head.

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

Creative Energy Is More Critical Than Learning.

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

Relativity Applies To Physics, Not Ethics.

Ethics And Morals

I Want To Know What God Thinks. The Rest Are Details.

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Three Rules Of Work: Out Of Clutter Find Simplicity. From Discord Find Harmony. In The Middle Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

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

To Understand The World One Must Not Be Worrying About One's Self.

Everyone Has Two Choices. We're Either Full Of Love... Or Full Of Fear.

Inspirational Love

A Theory Can Be Proved By Experiment; But No Path Leads From Experiment To The Birth Of A Theory.

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.

The Intellect Has Little To Do On The Road To Discovery. There Comes A Leap In Consciousness, Call It Intuition Or What You Will, The Solution Comes To You And You Don't Know How Or Why.

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If I Am Right The Germans Will Say I Was A German, And The French Will Say I Was A Jew; If I Am Wrong The Germans Will Say I Was A Jew And The French Will Say I Was A German.

If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker.

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

Do Not Worry About Your Difficulties In Mathematics. I Can Assure You Mine Are Still Greater.

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.

The Scientific Theorist Is Not To Be Envied. For Nature, Or More Precisely Experiment, Is An Exorable And Not Very Friendly Judge Of His Work. It Never Says "yes" To A Theory. In The Most Favorable Cases It Says "maybe," And In The Great Majority Of Cases Simply "no." If An Experiment Agrees With A Theory It Means For The Latter "maybe," And If It Does Not Agree It Means "no." Probably Every Theory Will Some Day Experience Its "no" - Most Theories, Soon After Conception.

It Is Humankind's Duty To Respect All Life, Not Only Animals Have Feelings But Even Also Trees And Plants.

The Ability To Portray People In Still Life And In Motion Requires The Highest Measure Of Intuition And Talent.

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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.

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

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.

Science Is The Attempt To Make The Chaotic Diversity Of Our Sense-experience Correspond To A Logically Uniform System Of Thought.

All Conditions And All Circumstances In Our Lives Are A Result Of A Certain Level Of Thinking. If We Want To Change The Conditions And Circumstances, We Have To Change The Level Of Thinking That Is Responsible For It.

Striving For Peace And Preparing For War Are Incompatible With Each Other, And In Our Time More So Than Ever.

Love Is A Better Teacher Than Duty.

In The Midst Of Every Crisis, Lies Great Opportunity.

Many Of The Things You Can Count, Don't Count. Many Of The Things You Can't Count, Really Count.

Curiosity Is A Delicate Little Plant That, Aside From Stimulation, Stands Mainly In Need Of Freedom.

Development Of Western Science Is Based On Two Great Achievements: The Invention Of The Formal Logical System (in Euclidean Geometry) By The Greek Philosophers, And The Discovery Of The Possibility To Find Out Causal Relationships By Systematic Experiment (during The Renaissance). In My Opinion, One Has Not To Be Astonished That The Chinese Sages Have Not Made These Steps. The Astonishing Thing Is That These Discoveries Were Made At All.

The Universe Is A Friendly Place.

A Hundred Times Every Day I Remind Myself That My Inner And Outer Life Are Based On The Labors Of Others.

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.

To Stimulate Creativity One Must Develop Childlike Inclination For Play And The Childlike Desire For Recognition.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today.

A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing. So Is A Lot.

What I Seek To Accomplish Is Simply To Serve With My Feeble Capacity Truth And Justice, At The Risk Of Pleasing No One.

I Came To America Because Of The Great, Great Freedom Which I Heard Existed In This Country. I Made A Mistake In Selecting America As A Land Of Freedom, A Mistake I Cannot Repair In The Balance Of My Lifetime.

The World We Have Created Is A Product Of Our Thinking; It Cannot Be Changed Without Changing Our Thinking. If We Want To Change The World We Have To Change Our Thinking...no Problem Can Be Solved From The Same Consciousness That Created It. We Must Learn To See The World Anew.

The Religion Of The Future Will Be Cosmic Religion. It Will Transcend Personal God And Avoid Dogma And Theology.

What I Value In Life Is Quality Rather Then Quantity.

There Will Come A Point In Everyone's Life , However, Where Only Intuition Can Make The Leap Ahead, Without Ever Knowing Precisely How. One Can Never Know Why But One Must Accept Intuition As A Fact.

As Far As The Laws Of Mathematics Refer To Reality, They Are Not Certain, And As Far As They Are Certain, They Do Not Refer To Reality.

Out Of The Multitude Of Our Sense Experiences We Take, Mentally And Arbitrarily, Certain Repeatedly Occurring Complexes Of Sense Impression (partly In Conjunction With Sense Impressions Which Are Interpreted As Signs For Sense Experiences Of Others), And We Attribute To Them A Meaning The Meaning Of The Bodily Object.

I Never Said Half The Crap People Said I Did.

I Have No Particular Talent. I Am Merely Inquisitive.

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.

In My Experience, The Best Creative Work Is Never Done When One Is Unhappy.

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves - This Critical Basis I Call The Ideal Of A Pigsty. The Ideals That 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 Empty To Me. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts - Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury - Have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

The Physicists Say That I Am A Mathematician, And The Mathematicians Say That I Am A Physicist. I Am A Completely Isolated Man And Though Everybody Knows Me, There Are Very Few People Who Really Know Me.

You Can Never Solve A Problem On The Level On Which It Was Created.

The Value Of A Man Resides In What He Gives

Giving Not Receiving

Adversity Introduces A Man To Himself.

Nothing Causes More Consternation In A Group Of Hypocrits Than One Honest Man.

Know Where To Find The Information And How To Use It - That's The Secret Of Success.

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

In The Midst Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

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

When The Number Of Factors Coming Into Play In A Phenomenological Complex Is Too Large Scientific Method In Most Cases Fails. One Need Only Think Of The Weather, In Which Case The Prediction Even For A Few Days Ahead Is Impossible.

I Have To Apologize To You That I Am Still Among The Living. There Will Be A Remedy For This, However.

We Must Remember That We Do Not Observe Nature As It Actually Exists, But Nature Exposed To Our Methods Of Perception. The Theories Determine What We Can Or Cannot Observe...reality Is An Illusion, Albeit A Persistent One.

America Is A Democracy And Has No Hitler, But I Am Afraid For Her Future; There Are Hard Times Ahead For The American People, Troubles Will Be Coming From Within And Without. America Cannot Smile Away Their Negro Problem Nor Hiroshima And Nagasaki. There Are Cosmic Laws.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Where There Is Love, There Is No Imposition.

The Best Design Is The Simplest One That Works.

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.

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

Everyone Likes Me, Yet Nobody Understands Me.

Nobody Understands Me

My Mind Is My Laboratory.

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."

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

If You Want To Live A Happy Life, Tie It To A Goal, Not To People Or Objects.

When I Was Young I Found Out That The Big Toe Always Ends Up Making A Hole In A Sock. So I Stopped Wearing Socks.

The Gravity Is The First Thing Which You Don't Think

The Pursuit Of Knowledge Is More Valuable Than Its Possession.

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

God Casts The Die, Not The Dice.

The Concept Of Marriage Must Have Been Thought Up By An Unimaginative Pig.

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.

People Like You And I, Though Mortal Of Course Like Everyone Else, Do Not Grow Old No Matter How Long We Live.

There Is Nothing Known As "perfect". Its Only Those Imperfections Which We Choose Not To See!!

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.

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

A Person Starts To Live When He Can Live Outside Himself.

I Am Happy Because I Want Nothing From Anyone. I Do Not Care For Money. Decorations, Titles Or Distinctions Mean Nothing To Me. I Do Not Crave Praise. The Only Thing That Gives Me Pleasure, Apart From My Work, My Violin And My Sailboat, Is The Appreciation Of My Fellow Workers.

The Flag Is A Symbol Of The Fact That Man Is Still A Herd Animal.

The Faster You Go, The Shorter You Are.

Compound Interest Is The Eighth Wonder Of The World. He Who Understands It, Earns It ... He Who Doesn't ... Pays It.

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.

World Government

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.

My Position Concerning God Is That Of An Agnostic.

Reward And Punishment

The World Will Not Evolve Past Its Current State Of Crisis By Using The Same Thinking That Created The Situation.

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious. It Is The Source Of All True Art And Science.

If Men As Individuals Surrender To The Call Of Their Elementary Instincts, Avoiding Pain And Seeking Satisfaction Only For Their Own Selves, The Result For Them All Taken Together Must Be A State Of Insecurity, Of Fear, And Of Promiscuous Misery.

It's Not That Life Has Been Easy, Perfect Or Exactly As Expected. I Just Choose To Be Happy And Grateful No Matter How It All Turns Out. If People Are Good Only Because They Fear Punishment, And Hope For Reward, Then We Are A Sorry Lot Indeed.

Common Sense Invents And Constructs No Less Than Its Own Field Than Science Does In Its Domain. It Is, However, In The Nature Of Common Sense Not To Be Aware Of This Situation.

I Want To Know All Gods Thoughts; All The Rest Are Just Details.

I Made One Great Mistake In My Life-when I Signed The Letter To President Roosevelt Recommending That Atom Bombs Be Made But There Was Some Justification-the Danger That The Germans Would Make Them.

Matter Is Energy ... Energy Is Light ... We Are All Light Beings

Education Is Only A Ladder To Gather Fruit From The Tree Of Knowledge, Not The Fruit Itself

An Autocratic System Of Coercion, In My Opinion, Soon Degenerates. For Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels. For This Reason I Have Always Been Passionately Opposed To Systems Such As We See In Italy And Russia To-day.

It Is Quite Possible That We Can Do Greater Things Than Jesus, For What Is Written In The Bible About Him Is Poetically Embellished.

I'm More Interested In The Future Than In The Past, Because The Future Is Where I Intend To Live.

The Height Of Stupidity Is Most Clearly Demonstrated By The Individual Who Ridicules Something He Knows Nothing About.

Success Comes From Curiosity, Concentration, Perseverance And Self Criticism.

My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature Not By Other Feelings.

God Almighty Does Not Throw Dice.

Coincidences Are God's Way Of Staying Anonymous.

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

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.

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.

It Occurred To Me By Intuition, And Music Was The Driving Force Behind That Intuition. My Discovery Was The Result Of Musical Perception.

Unless Americans Come To Realize That They Are Not Stronger In The World Because They Have The Bomb But Weaker Because Of Their Vulnerability To Atomic Attack, They Are Not Likely To Conduct Their Policy At Lake Success [the United Nations] Or In Their Relations With Russia In A Spirit That Furthers The Arrival At An Understanding.

Not Until The Creation And Maintenance Of Decent Conditions Of Life For All Men Are Recognized And Accepted As A Common Obligation Of All Men And All Countries — Not Until Then Shall We, With A Certain Degree Of Justification, Be Able To Speak Of Mankind As Civilized.

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.

You Can't Resolve A Dilemma With All The Very Same Mind That Made It

They Come Into Being Not Through Demonstration But Through Revelation, Through The Medium Of Powerful Personalities.

True Art Is Characterized By An Irresistible Urge In The Creative Artist.

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

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