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Science Is The Century-old Endeavor To Bring Together By Means Of Systematic Thought The Perceptible Phenomena Of This World Into As Thorough-going An Association As Possible.

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Science Is The Century-old Endeavor To Bring Together By Means Of Systematic Thought The Perceptible Phenomena Of This World Into As Thorough-going An Association As Possible.

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

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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.

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We Must Learn To See The World Anew.

All Means Prove But Blunt Instruments, If They Have Not Behind Them A Living Spirit.

The Secret To Creativity Is Knowing How To Hide Your Sources.

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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.

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I Believe We Are Here To Do Good. It Is The Responsibility Of Every Human Being To Aspire To Do Something Worthwhile, To Make The World A Better Place Than The One We Found.

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Experience Is Knowledge. All The Rest Is Information.

God Almighty Does Not Throw Dice.

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.

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

Fantasie Is Belangrijker Dan Kennis, Want Kennis Is Begrensd.

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

With Fame I Become More And More Stupid, Which Of Course Is A Very Common Phenomenon.

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.

I Must Try, However, As Best I Can, Although I Am Very Conscious Of The Fact That Our Feelings And Strivings Are Often Contradictory And Obscure And That They Cannot Be Expressed In Easy And Simple Formulas.

Common Sense Needs Constant Reappraisal.

A New Idea Comes Suddenly And In A Rather Intuitive Way, But Intuition Is Nothing But The Outcome Of Earlier Intellectual Experience.

Only One Who Devotes Himself To A Cause With His Whole Strength And Soul Can Be A True Master. For This Reason Mastery Demands All Of A Person.

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

The Wireless Telegraph Is Not Difficult To Understand. The Ordinary Telegraph Is Like A Very Long Cat. You Pull The Tail In New York, And It Meows In Los Angeles. The Wireless Is The Same, Only Without The Cat.

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

Intuitive Powers Played A Central Role In My Scientific Work, Not Wild Speculation, Yet A Valued Resource When No Other Approach Was Available.

When Men Are Engaged In War And Conquest, The Tools Of Science Become As Dangerous As A Razor In The Hands Of A Child Of Three. We Must Not Condemn Man Because His Inventiveness And Patient Conquest Of The Forces Of Nature Are Being Exploited For False And Destructive Purposes. Rather, We Should Remember That The Fate Of Mankind Hinges Entirely Upon Man’s Moral Development.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge.

Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

When We First Got Married, We Made A Pact. It Was This: In Our Life Together, It Was Decided I Would Make All Of The Big Decisions And My Wife Would Make All Of The Little Decisions. For Fifty Years, We Have Held True To That Agreement. I Believe That Is The Reason For The Success In Our Marriage. However, The Strange Thing Is That In Fifty Years, There Hasn’t Been One Big Decision.

Be A Loner. That Gives You Time To Wonder.

Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Forces Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creations.

I Am A Deeply Religious Nonbeliever - This Is A Somewhat New Kind Of Religion.

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.

During The Last Century, And Part Of The One Before, It Was Widely Held That There Was An Unreconcilable Conflict Between Knowledge And Belief. The Opinion Prevailed Amoung Advanced Minds That It Was Time That Belief Should Be Replaced Increasingly By Knowledge; Belief That Did Not Itself Rest On Knowledge Was Superstition, And As Such Had To Be Opposed. According To This Conception, The Sole Function Of Education Was To Open The Way To Thinking And Knowing, And The School, As The Outstanding Organ For The People's Education, Must Serve That End Exclusively.

If I Had 20 Days To Solve A Problem, I Would Take 19 Days To Define It

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

Younger Generation

My Comprehension Of God Comes From A Deeply Felt Conviction Of A Superior Intelligence That Reveals Itself In The Knowable World.

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

If The Bee Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live. This Is Regarded As Probably Not A Quote By Einstein.

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

Hell! There Ain't No Rules Around Here! We Are Tryin' To Accomplish Somep'n!

There Two Things That Are Infinite, Human Stupidity And The Universe, I Don't Know About The Universe

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

In 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.

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.

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

If You Feed Your Mind As Often As You Feed Your Stomach, Then You'll Never Have To Worry About Feeding Your Stomach Or A Roof Over Your Head Or Clothes On Your Back.

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

The Fear Of Death Is The Most Unjustified Of All Fears, For There's No Risk Of Accident For Someone Who's Dead.

That Is The Way To Learn The Most, That When You Are Doing Something With Such Enjoyment That You Don't Notice That The Time Passes.

O, Youth: Do You Know That Yours Is Not The First Generation To Yearn For A Life Full Of Beauty And Freedom?

Albert Is A Very Poor Student. He Is Mentally Slow, Unsociable And Is Always Daydreaming. He Is Spoiling It For The Rest Of The Class. It Would Be In The Best Interests Of All If He Were Removed From School Immediately.

The Grand Aim Of All Science Is To Cover The Greatest Number Of Empirical Facts By Logical Deduction From The Smallest Number Of Hypotheses Or Axioms.

Where The World Ceases To Be The Scene Of Our Personal Hopes And Wishes, Where We Face It As Free Beings Admiring, Asking And Observing, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Science.

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.

If People Would Only Talk About What They Understood, Earth Would Be A Very Quiet Place.

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