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The Music Of Mozart Is Of Such Purity And Beauty That One Feels He Merely Found It - That It Has Always Existed As Part Of The Inner Beauty Of The Universe Waiting To Be Revealed.

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The Music Of Mozart

Albert Einstein

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The Music Of Mozart Is Of Such Purity And Beauty That One Feels He Merely Found It - That It Has Always Existed As Part Of The Inner Beauty Of The Universe Waiting To Be Revealed.

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Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It. One Should Earn One's Living By Work Of Which One Is Sure One Is Capable. Only When We Do Not Have To Be Accountable To Anybody Can We Find Joy In Scientific Endeavor.

I Take It To Be True That Pure Thought Can Grasp The Real, As The Ancients Had Dreamed.

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

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.

There's A Genius In All Of Us.

Of All The Communities Available To Us, There Is Not One I Would Want To Devote Myself To Except For The Society Of The True Seekers, Which Has Very Few Living Members At Any One Time.

Where You See Difficulty, I See Opportunity.

The Ideals Which Have Always Shone Before Me And Filled Me With The Joy Of Living Are Goodness, Beauty, And Truth.

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.

It Takes A Touch Of Genius - And A Lot Of Courage To Move In The Opposite Direction.

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If What Is Seen And Experienced Is Portrayed In The Language Of Logic, Then It Is Science. If It Is Communicated Through Forms Whose Connections Are Not Accessible To The Conscious Mind But Are Recognized Intuitively, Then It Is Art.

The Led Must Not Be Compelled; They Must Be Able To Choose Their Own Leader.

Most People Say That It Is The Intellect Which Makes A Great Scientist. They Are Wrong: It Is Character.

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.

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.

I Believe That Pipe Smoking Contributes To A Somewhat Calm And Objective Judgement In All Human Affairs.

The Real Difficulty, The Difficulty Which Has Baffled The Sages Of All Times, Is Rather This: How Can We Make Our Teaching So Potent In The Motional Life Of Man, That Its Influence Should Withstand The Pressure Of The Elemental Psychic Forces In The Individual?

I Admit That Thoughts Influence The Body.

Men Should Continue To Fight, But They Should Fight For Things Worth While, Not For Imaginary Geographical Lines, Racial Prejudices And Private Greed Draped In The Color's Of Patriotism.

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

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

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

The Individual Feels The Vanity Of Human Desires And Aims, And The Nobility And Marvelous Order Which Are Revealed In Nature And In The World Of Thought. He Feels The Individual Destiny As An Imprisonment And Seeks To Experience The Totality Of Existence As A Unity Full Of Significance.

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

Genius Is 1% Talent And 99% Percent Hard Work.

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".

That's My Mathematician Who Examines Problems Which I Put Before Him And Checks Their Validity. You See, I Am Not Myself A Good Mathematician.

If I Would Follow Your Advice And Jesus Could Perceive It, He, As A Jewish Teacher, Surely Would Not Approve Of Such Behavior.

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.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge.

When I Examine Myself And My Methods Of Thought, I Come To The Conclusion That The Gift Of Fantasy Has Meant More To Me Than My Talent For Absorbing Positive Knowledge. (reading This Makes Me Wonder How Much Sooner Man Could Have Walked On The Moon... Had We Listened To A Child's Fantasies. It Is Truly A Pity That So Many Lose Their Gift Of Imagination To The Steady Hum Of The Status Quo.)

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.

The Longing To Behold This Pre-established Harmony [of Phenomena And Theoretical Principles] Is The Source Of The Inexhaustible Patience And Perseverance With Which Planck Has Devoted Himself ... The State Of Mind Which Enables A Man To Do Work Of This Kind Is Akin To That Of The Religious Worshiper Or The Lover; The Daily Effort Comes From No Deliberate Intention Or Program, But Straight From The Heart.

The Truth Isn't Always A Blinding Light. Sometimes It's A Deep And Dazzling Darkness, That Illuminates - And Burns - Just As Surely.

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.

Art Is The Expression Of The Profoundest Thoughts In The Simplest Way.

The War Is Won, But The Peace Is Not.

A Man Must Learn To Understand The Motives Of Human Beings, Their Illusions, And Their Sufferings.

Outer Changes Always Begin With An Inner Change Of Attitude.

Insofar As We May At All Claim That Slavery Has Been Abolished Today, We Owe Its Abolition To The Practical Consequences Of Science

The Prestige Of Government Has Undoubtedly Been Lowered Considerably By The Prohibition Law. For Nothing Is More Destructive Of Respect For The Government And The Law Of The Land Than Passing Laws Which Cannot Be Enforced. It Is An Open Secret That The Dangerous Increase Of Crime In This Country Is Closely Connected With This.

The Pursuit Of Knowledge Is More Valuable Than Its Possession.

It Is, In Fact, Nothing Short Of A Miracle That The Modern Methods Of Instruction Have Not Yet Entirely Strangled The Holy Curiosity Of Inquiry; For This Delicate Little Plant, Aside From Stimulation, Stands Mainly In Need Of Freedom; Without This It Goes To Wrack And Ruin Without Fail. It Is A Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty.

He Who Finds Though That Lets Us Penetrate Even A Little Deeper Into The Eternal Mystery Of Nature Has Been Granted Great Grace. He Who, In Addition, Experiences The Recognition, Sympathy, And Help Of The Best Minds Of His Times, Had Been Given Almost More Happiness Than One Man Can Bear.

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.

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.

He Who Cherishes The Value Of Cultures Cannot Fail To Be A Pacifist.

The Restriction Of Knowledge To An Elite Group Destroys The Spirit Of The Society And Leads To Its Intellectual Impoverishment.

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

The Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Except Our Thinking. Thus, We Are Drifting Toward Catastrophe Beyond Conception. We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.

While It Is True That Science, To The Extent Of Its Grasp Of Causative Connections, May Reach Important Conclusions As To The Compatibility And Incompatibility Of Goals And Evaluations, The Independent And Fundamental Definitions Regarding Goals And Values Remain Beyond Science's Reach.

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

There Could Be No Greater Calamity Than A Permanent Discord Between Us And The Arab People. Despite The Great Wrong That Has Been Done Us, We Must Strive For A Just And Lasting Compromise With The Arab People Let Us Recall That In Former Times No People Lived In Greater Friendship With Us Than The Ancestors Of These Arabs.

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.

It Would Seem That Men Always Need Some Idiotic Fiction In The Name Of Which They Can Hate One Another. Once It Was Religion. Now It Is The State.

Intellectuals Solve Problems, Geniuses Prevent Them.

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Learning Is The Beginning Of Wealth. Searching And Learning Is Where The Miracle Process All Begins. The Great Breakthrough In Your Life Comes When You Realize It That You Can Learn Anything You Need To Learn To Accomplish Any Goal That You Set For Yourself. This Means There Are No Limits On What You Can Be, Have Or Do.

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Out Yonder There Is This Huge World, Which Exists Independently Of Us Human Beings And Which Stands Before Us Like A Great, Eternal Riddle, At Least Partially Accessible To Our Inspection And Thinking

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I Cannot Write In English, Because Of The Treacherous Spelling. When I Am Reading, I Only Hear It And Am Unable To Remember What The Written Word Looks Like.

Bureaucracy Is The Death Of All Sound Work.

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Man Would Indeeded Be In A Poor Way If He Had To Be Restrained By Fear Of Punishment And Hope Of Reward After Death.

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Just Because You Believe In Something Does Not Mean That It Is True.

When I Study Philosophical Works I Feel I Am Swallowing Something Which I Don't Have In My Mouth.

I Urge A Willingness To Reserve A Place In Rational Science For Non-rational Wonder.

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My Passionate Sense Of Social Justice And Social Responsibility Has Always Contrasted Oddly With My Pronounced Lack Of Need For Direct Contact With Other Human Beings And Human Communities. I Am Truly A 'lone Traveler' And Have Never Belonged To My Country, My Home, My Friends, Or Even My Immediate Family, With My Whole Heart; In The Face Of All These Ties, I Have Never Lost A Sense Of Distance And A Need For Solitude.

Rejoice With Your Family In The Beautiful Land Of Life.

The Content Of Scientific Theory Itself Offers No Moral Foundation For The Personal Conduct Of Life.

One Must Shy Away From Questionable Undertakings, Even When They Bear A High-sounding Name.

Knowledge Is Limited.

For Me The Jewish Religion Like All Others Is An Incarnation Of The Most Childish Superstitions, And The Jewish People To Whom I Gladly Belong And With Whose Mentality I Have A Deep Affinity Have No Different Quality For Me Than All Other People. As Far As My Experience Goes, They Are No Better Than Other Human Groups, Although They Are Protected From The Worst Cancers By A Lack Of Power. Otherwise I Cannot See Anything Chosen About Them.

Raffiniert Ist Der Herr Gott, Aber Boshaft Ist Er Nicht. God Is Subtle, But He Is Not Malicious.

.. Free And Responsible Development Of The Individual, So That He May Place His Powers Freely And Gladly In The Service Of All Mankind. There Is No Room In This For The Divinization Of A Nation, Of A Class, Let Alone Of An Individual. Are We Not All Children Of One Father, As It Is Said In Religious Language?

I Should Much Rather See Reasonable Agreement With The Arabs On The Basis Of Living Together In Peace Than The Creation Of A Jewish State. My Awareness Of The Essential Nature Of Judaism Resists The Idea Of A Jewish State With Borders, An Army, And A Measure Of Temporal Power, No Matter How Modest. I Am Afraid Of The Inner Damage Judaism Will Sustain—especially From The Development Of A Narrow Nationalism Within Our Own Ranks, Against Which We Have Already Had To Fight Strongly, Even Without A Jewish State.

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

If I Could Do It All Again, I'd Be A Plumber.

God Is A Scientist, Not A Magician.

People Should Be More Like Animals . . . They Should Be More Intuitive; They Should Not Be Too Conscious Of What They Do While They Do It.

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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I See Only With Deep Regret That God Punishes So Many Of His Children For Their Numerous Stupidities, For Which Only He Himself Can Be Held Responsible; In My Opinion, Only His Nonexistence Could Excuse Him.

Life Isn't Worth Living, Unless It Is Lived For Someone Else.

The Equation For Ego Is: One Over Knowledge.

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun.

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.

I Didn't Arrive At My Understanding Of The Fundamental Laws Of The Universe Through My Rational Mind.

I Consider It Important, Indeed Urgently Necessary, For Intellectual Workers To Get Together, Both To Protect Their Own Economic Status And, Also, Generally Speaking, To Secure Their Influence In The Political Field.

The Point Is To Develop The Childlike Inclination For Play And The Childlike Desire For Recognition And To Guide The Child Over To Important Fields For Society. Such A School Demands From The Teacher That He Be A Kind Of Artist In His Province.

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

One Must Console Oneself With The Thought That Time Has A Sieve Through Which Most Of These Important Things Run Into The Ocean Of Oblivion And What Remains After This Selection Is Often Still Trite And Bad.

I Should Much Rather See A Reasonable Agreement With Arabs Based Upon Living Together Than The Creation Of A Jewish State.

If Tomorrow Were Never To Come, It Would Not Be Worth Living Today.

I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration...at Times I Feel Certain I Am Right While Not Knowing The Reason.

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

Even Though The Realms Of Religion And Science In Themselves Are Clearly Marked Off From Each Other, Nevertheless There Exist Between The Two Strong Reciprocal Relationships And Dependencies.

Science And Religion

Condemnation Without Investigation Is The Height Of Ignorance

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.

One Does Not Make Wars Less Likely By Formulationg Rules Of Warfare... War Cannot Be Humanized. It Can Only Be Eliminated.

If I Had Only Known, I Would Have Been A Locksmith.

A Person Who Never Made A Mistake Never Tried Anything New.

Figuring Out How To Think About The Problem.

I Myself Should Also Be Dead Already, But I Am Still Here.

The Wonder Of Nature Does Not Become Smaller Because One Cannot Measure It By The Standards Of Human Moral And Human Aims.

Every Kind Of Peaceful Cooperation Among Men Is Primarily Based On Mutual Trust And Only Secondarily On Institutions Such As Courts Of Justice And Police.

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.

Roof Over Your Head

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.

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.

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

Games Are The Most Elevated Form Of Investigation.

Formal Symbolic Representation Of Qualitative Entities Is Doomed To Its Rightful Place Of Minor Significance In A World Where Flowers And Beautiful Women Abound.

Time Is An Illusion.

... 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.

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.

The Most Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning.

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.

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

Understanding Physics Is Child's Play When Compared To Understanding Child's Play.

My Opinion About Miller's Experiments Is The Following. ... Should The Positive Result Be Confirmed, Then The Special Theory Of Relativity And With It The General Theory Of Relativity, In Its Current Form, Would Be Invalid. Experimentum Summus Judex. Only The Equivalence Of Inertia And Gravitation Would Remain, However, They Would Have To Lead To A Significantly Different Theory.

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].

My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature And By No Other Feeling. My Love For Justice And Striving To Contribute Towards The Improvement Of Human Conditions Are Quite Independent From My Scientific Interests.

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.

Genius Is Making Complex Ideas Simple, Not Making Simple Ideas Complex

It Is Impossible To Solve Significant Problems Using The Same Knowledge That Created Them.

Work Is The Only Thing That Gives Substance To Life.

I Assert That The Cosmic Religious Experience Is The Strongest And The Noblest Driving Force Behind Scientific Research.

Success = 1 Part Work + 1 Part Play + 1 Part Keep Your Mouth Shut

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.

The Thing Is, Not To Stop Questioning.

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

The Single Most Important Decision Any Of Us Will Ever Make Is Whether Or Not To Believe The Universe Is Friendly.

God May Be Subtle, But He Isn't Plain Mean.

If You Are Out To Describe The Truth, Leave Elegance To The Tailor. On Being Reproached That His Formula Of Gravitation Was Longer And More Cumbersome Than Newton's.

The History Of Scientific And Technical Discovery Teaches Us That The Human Race Is Poor In Independent And Creative Imagination. Even When The External And Scientific Requirements For The Birth Of An Idea Have Long Been There, It Generally Needs An External Stimulus To Make It Actually Happen; Man Has, So To Speak, To Stumble Right Up Against The Thing Before The Idea Comes.

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

All That's Different About Me Is That I Still Ask The Questions Most People Stopped Asking At Age Five.

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

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.

Give Back To The World At Least What You've Received.

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

Thought Provoking

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

The Satisfaction Of Physical Needs Is Indeed The Indispensable Pre-condition Of A Satisfactory Existence, But In Itself It Is Not Enough. In Order To Be Content, Men Must Also Have The Possibility Of Developing Their Intellectual And Artistic Powers To Whatever Extent Accords With Their Personal Characteristics And Abilities.

It Is Both Auspicious And Peaceful For People To Choose Vegetarinism.

No Problem Can Be Solved From The Same Level Of Consciousness That Created It.

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

All Religions, Arts And Sciences Are Branches Of The Same Tree. All These Aspirations Are Directed Toward Ennobling Man's Life, Lifting It From The Sphere Of Mere Physical Existence And Leading The Individual Towards Freedom.

Members Of Legislative Bodies Are Selected By Political Parties, Largely Financed Or Otherwise Influenced By Private Capitalists Who, For All Practical Purposes, Separate The Electorate From The Legislature. The Consequence Is That The Representatives Of The People Do Not In Fact Sufficiently Protect The Interests Of The Underprivileged Sections Of The Population.

It Would Be Foolish To Despise Tradition. But With Our Growing Self-consciousness And Increasing Intelligence We Must Begin To Control Tradition And Assume A Critical Attitude Toward It, If Human Relations Are Ever To Change For The Better.

The Future Is Not A Gift-it Is An Achievement.

A Model Should Be As Simple As It Can Be But No Simpler

One Lives One's Life Under Constant Tension, Until It's Time To Go For Good

I Soon Learned To Scent Out That Which Was Able To Lead To Fundamentals And To Turn Aside From Everything Else, From The Multitude Of Things Which Clutter Up The Mind And Divert It From The Essential.

Man, Surrounded By Facts, Permitting Himself No Surprise, No Intuitive Flash, No Great Hypothesis, No Risk, Is In A Locked Cell. Ignorance Cannot Seal The Mind And Imagination More Securely.

One Has To Realize That The Powerful Industrial Groups Concerned In The Manufacture Of Arms Are Doing Their Best In All Countries To Prevent The Peaceful Settlement Of International Disputes, And That Rulers Can Achieve This Great End Only If They Are Sure Of The Vigorous Support Of The Majority Of Their Peoples.

The Devil Has Put A Penalty On All Things We Enjoy In Life. Either We Suffer In Our Health, Or We Suffer In Our Soul, Or We Get Fat.

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.

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

Time Has No Independent Existence Apart From The Order Of Events By Which We Measure It.

Something Deeply Hidden Had To Be Behind Things.

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

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.

Galileo Had Already Made A Significant Beginning Toward A Knowledge Of The Law Of Motion. He Discovered The Law Of Inertia And The Law Of Bodies Falling Freely In The Gravitational Field Of The Earth.

Nor Do I Take Into Account A Danger Of Starting A Chain Reaction Of A Scope Great Enough To Destroy Part Or All Of The Planet...but It Is Not Necessary To Imagine The Earth Being Destroyed Like A Nova By A Stellar Explosion To Understand Vividly The Grow Ing Scope Of Atomic War And To Recognize That Unless Another War Is Prevented It Is Likely To Bring Destruction On A Scale Never Before Held Possible, And Even Now Hardly Conceived, And That Little Civilization Would Survive It.

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation And Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty.

Here's A Challenge: Study A Complicated Topic In Such Detail That Anyone Interested Can Nod Their Head And Understand As You Explain Specific Concepts Within The Topic.

It Stands To The Everlasting Credit Of Science That By Acting On The Human Mind It Has Overcome Man's Insecurity Before Himself And Before Nature.

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.

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

At The Same Time, As Social Beings, We Are Moved In The Relations With Our Fellow Beings By Such Feelings As Sympathy, Pride, Hate, Need For Power, Pity, And So On.

The Idea Of Achieving Security Through National Armament Is, At The Present State Of Military Technique, A Disastrous Illusion.

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.

A Human Being Is Part Of A Whole Called By Us The Universe.

Parts Of A Whole

Great Spiritual

Nothing That I Can Do Or Say Will Change The Structure Of The Universe. But Maybe, By Raising My Voice, I Can Help The Greatest Of All Causes — Good Will Among Men And Peace On Earth.

Concern For Man And His Fate Must Always Form The Chief Interest Of All Technical Endeavors. Never Forget This In The Midst Of Your Diagrams And Equations.

Small Is The Number Of People Who See With Their Eyes And Think With Their Minds.

[kepler] Had To Realize Clearly That Logical-mathematical Theoretizing, No Matter How Lucid, Could Not Guarantee Truth By Itself; That The Most Beautiful Logical Theory Means Nothing In Natural Science Without Comparison With The Exactest Experience. Without This Philosophic Attitude, His Work Would Not Have Been Possible.

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.

All Our Thinking Is Of This Nature, A Free Play With Concepts.

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.

Organized People Are Just Too Lazy To Go Looking For What They Want.

Knowledge Is Realizing That The Street Is One Way; Wisdom Is Looking In Both Directions Anyway.

[o]nly If Every Individual Strives For Truth Can Humanity Attain A Happier Future; The Atavisms In Each Of Us That Stand In The Way Of A Friendlier Destiny Can Only Thus Be Rendered Ineffective.

I Believe That Gandhi’s Views Were The Most Enlightened Of All The Political Men In Our Time. We Should Strive To Do Things In His Spirit: Not To Use Violence In Fighting For Our Cause, But By Non-participation In Anything You Believe Is Evil.

Formerly, People Thought That If Matter Disappeared From The Universe, Space And Time Would Remain. Relativity Declares That Space And Time Would Disappear With Matter.

He Who Finds A Thought That Lets Us A Little Deeper Into The Eternal Mystery Of Nature Has Been Granted Great Peace.

The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts-possessions, Superficial Success, Luxury-have Always Seemed Contemptible To Me.

But The Personality That Finally Emerges Is Largely Formed By The Environment In Which A Man Happens To Find Himself During His Development, By The Structure Of The Society In Which He Grows Up, By The Tradition Of That Society, And By Its Appraisal Of Particular Types Of Behavior.

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.

I Have Repeatedly Said That In My Opinion The Idea Of A Personal God Is A Childlike One.

"there's Been A Quantum Leap Technologically In Our Age, But Unless There's Another Quantum Leap In Human Relations, Unless We Learn To Live In A New Way Towards One Another, There Will Be A Catastrophe."

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

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