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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

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The Power Of Imagination

Albert Einstein

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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

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It Is Every Man's Obligation To Put Back Into The World At Least The Equivalent Of What He Takes Out Of It.

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

Degeneracy Follows Every Autocratic System Of Violence, For Violence Inevitably Attracts Moral Inferiors. Time Has Proven That Illustrious Tyrants Are Succeeded By Scoundrels.

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

Pure Mathematics Is, In Its Way, The Poetry Of Logical Ideas.

What We Don't Know Is Much More Than What We Know.

I Do Not Believe That Civilization Will Be Wiped Out In A War Fought With The Atomic Bomb. Perhaps Two-thirds Of The People Of The Earth Will Be Killed.

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.

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.

My Political Ideal Is Democracy. Let Every Man Be Respected As An Individual And No Man Idolized.

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

If There Is No Price To Be Paid, It Is Also Not Of Value.

Older Men Start Wars, But Younger Men Fight Them.

The Most Beautiful Experience In The World Is The Experience Of The Mysterious.

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.

I Asked Myself Childish Questions And Proceeded To Answer Them.

Except In Mathematics, The Shortest Distance Between Point A And Point B Is Seldom A Straight Line. I Don't Believe In Mathematics.

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.

Truly Novel Inventions Emerge Only In One's Youth. Later One Becomes Ever More Experienced, Famous-and Foolish.

There Are Moments When One Feels Free From One's Own Identification With Human Limitations And Inadequacies. At Such Moments One Imagines That One Stands On Some Spot Of A Small Planet, Gazing In Amazement At The Cold Yet Profoundly Moving Beauty Of The Eternal, The Unfathomable; Life And Death Flow Into One, And There Is Neither Evolution Nor Destiny; Only Being.

Scientific Greatness Is Less A Matter Of Intelligence Than Character; If The Scientist Refuses To Compromise Or Accept Incomplete Answers And Persists In Grappling The Most Basic And Difficult Questions.

Difficult Questions

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

I Believe That Gandhi’s Views Were The Most Enlightened Of All The Political Men Of Our Time.

I Have Only Two Rules Which I Regard As Principles Of Conduct. The First Is: Have No Rules. The Second Is: Be Independent Of The Opinion Of Others.

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

What I'm Really Interested In Is Whether God Could Have Made The World In A Different Way; That Is, Whether The Necessity Of Logical Simplicity Leaves Any Freedom At All.

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

Only The One Who Does Not Question Is Safe From Making A Mistake.

Making Mistakes

It Is My View That The Vegetarian Manner Of Living, By Its Purely Physical Effect On The Human Temperament, Would Most Beneficially Influence The Lot Of Mankind.

Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

Most Of The Fundamental Ideas Of Science Are Essentially Simple, And May, As A Rule, Be Expressed In A Language Comprehensible To Everyone.

When Albert Einstein Was Asked What He Would Really Like To Know About The Universe He Replied,'is It Friendly?

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

Any Brief Military Advantage The Usa Might Gain With Nuclear Weapons Would Be Offset By Political And Psychological Losses And Damage To American Prestige. The United States Might Even Touch Off A Worldwide Armaments Race.

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

The Greatest Activity Of Which Man Is Capable: Opening Up Yet Another Fragment Of The Frontier Of Beauty.

If I Give You A Pfennig, You Will Be One Pfennig Richer And I'll Be One Pfennig Poorer. But If I Give You An Idea, You Will Have A New Idea, But I Shall Still Have It Too.

It Is Difficult Even To Attach A Precise Meaning To The Term "scientific Truth." So Different Is The Meaning Of The Word "truth" According To Whether We Are Dealing With A Fact Of Experience, A Mathematical Proposition Or A Scientific Theory. "religious Truth" Conveys Nothing Clear To Me At All.

Experience Is Knowledge. All The Rest Is Information.

The Scientist's Religious Feeling Takes The Form Of A Rapturous Amazement At The Harmony Of Natural Law, Which Reveals An Intelligence Of Such Superiority That, Compared With It, All The Systematic Thinking And Acting Of Human Beings Is Utterly Insignificant Reflection. This Feeling Is The Guiding Principle Of His Life And Work, In So Far As He Succeeds In Keeping Himself From The Shackles Of Selfish Desire. It Is Beyond Question Closely Akin To That Which Has Possessed The Religious Geniuses Of All Ages.

Brief Is This Existence, As A Visit In A Strange House. The Path To Be Pursued Is Poorly Lit By A Flickering Consciousness.

The Leaves And The Light Are One.

It Would Of Course Be A Great Step Forward If We Succeeded In Combining The Gravitational Field And The Electromagnetic Field Into A Single Structure. Only So Could The Era In Theoretical Physics Inaugurated By Faraday And James Clerk Maxwell Be Brought To A Satisfactory Close.

Theoretical Physics

It Is Enough For Me To Contemplate The Mystery Of Conscious Life Perpetuating Itself Through All Eternity, To Reflect Upon The Marvelous Structure Of The Universe Which We Dimly Perceive, And To Try Humbly To Comprehend An Infinitesimal Part Of The Intelligence Manifested In Nature.

Playfullness Is The Essential Feature Of Productive Thought.

One May Say The Eternal Mystery Of The World Is Its Comprehensibility.

Princeton Is A Wonderful Little Spot. A Quaint And Ceremonious Village Of Puny Demigods On Stilts.

Am I, Or The Others Crazy?

It Seems To Me An Utterly Futile Task To Prescribe Rules And Limitations For The Conduct Of War. War Is Not A Game; Hence One Cannot Wage War By Rules As One Would In Playing Games. Our Fight Must Be Against War Itself. The Masses Of People Can Most Effectively Fight The Institution Of War By Establishing An Organization For The Absolute Refusal Of Military Service.

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

Those Who Have An Interest In Keeping The Machinery Of War Going Will Stop At Nothing To Make Public Opinion Subservient To Their Murderous Ends.

Everyone Sits In The Prison Of His Own Ideas; He Must Burst It Open, And That In His Youth, And So Try To Test His Ideas On Reality.

I Like Neither New Clothes Nor New Kinds Of Food.

True Knowledge Comes With Deep Understanding Of A Topic And Its Inner Workings.

Deep Understanding

A Person Experiences Life As Something Separated From The Rest - A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness. Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves From This Self-imposed Prison, And Through Compassion, To Find The Reality Of Oneness.

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.

A Theory Is Something Nobody Believes, Except The Person Who Made It. An Experiment Is Something Everybody Believes, Except The Person Who Made It.

The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

I Am Fascinated By Spinoza's Pantheism, But Admire Even More His Contributions To Modern Thought Because He Is The First Philosopher To Deal With The Soul And The Body As One, Not Two Separate Things

Without The Sense Of Fellowship With Men Of Like Mind, Of Preoccupation With The Objective, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Research, Life Would Have Seemed To Me Empty.

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.

When A Man Points A Finger At Someone Else, He Should Remember That Three Of His Fingers Are Pointing At Himself. Do Not Worry About Your Difficulties In Mathematics; I Can Assure You That Mine Are Still Greater.

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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.

The Question That Drives Me Hazy Is Whether It Is I Or Others Who Is Crazy.

To Know What Is Impenetrable To Us Really Exists, Manifesting Itself As The Highest Wisdom And The Most Radiant Beauty... This Knowledge, This Feeling Is At The Center Of True Religiousness.

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

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.

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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.

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Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It.

All These Primary Impulses, Not Easily Described In Words, Are The Springs Of Man's Actions.

You Are The Only Person I Know Who Has The Same Attitude Towards Physics As I Have: Belief In The Comprehension Of Reality Through Something Basically Simple And Unified... It Seems Hard To Sneak A Look At God's Cards. But That He Plays Dice And Uses 'telepathic' Methods... Is Something That I Cannot Believe For A Single Moment.

I Believe In Standardizing Automobiles, Not Human Beings.

I Think And Think For Months And Years. Ninety-nine Times, The Conclusion Is False. The Hundredth Time I Am Right.

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

It Is Characteristic Of The Military Mentality That Non-human Factors ... Are Held Essential, While The Human Being, His Desires And Thoughts-in Short, The Psychological Factors-are Considered As Unimportant And Secondary.

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

Everything What's Inspiring Has Been Created By One Who Could Work In Freedom

Life Is A Journey

Never Regard Study As A Duty, But As The Enviable Opportunity To Learn

Opportunities To Learn

What Use Are Socks? They Only Produce Holes.

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

When You Are Courting A Nice Girl An Hour Seems Like A Second.

Funny Inspirational

Work Is The Only Thing I Do To Escape The Corruption Of Praise.

The Economists Will Have To Revise Their Theories Of Value.

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 Am Neither Especially Clever Nor Especially Gifted. I Am Only Very, Very Curious.

I Thought Of That While Riding My Bicycle.

God Doesn't; Shoot Crap With The Universe.your Innermost Thoughts Are Beliefs That Unfold As Your Universe.

It Is Also A Natural Thing For A Serious Young Man That He Should Form For Himself As Precise An Idea As Possible Of The Goal Of His Desires.

Everyone Should Be Respected As An Individual, But No One Idolized.

Failure Is Success In Progress

It Is Strange To Be Known So Universally And Yet To Be So Lonely.

The Universe Is Stranger Than We Imagine!

Honestly, I Cannot Understand What People Mean When They Talk About The Freedom Of The Human Will. I Have A Feeling, For Instance, That I Will Something Or Other; But What Relation This Has With Freedom I Cannot Understand At All. I Feel That I Will To Light My Pipe And I Do It; But How Can I Connect This Up With The Idea Of Freedom? What Is Behind The Act Of Willing To Light The Pipe ? Another Act Of Willing?

If I Had Known They Were Going To Do This, I Would Have Become A Shoemaker.

Our Death Is Not An End If We Can Live On In Our Children And The Younger Generation. For They Are Us; Our Bodies Are Only Wilted Leaves On The Tree Of Life.

I Am Exclusively Occupied With The Problem Of Gravitation And Hope With The Help Of A Local Mathematician Friend [marcel Grossman] To Overcome All The Difficulties. One Thing Is Certain, However, That Never In Life Have I Been Quite So Tormented. A Great Respect For Mathematics Has Been Instilled Within Me, The Subtler Aspects Of Which, In My Stupidity, I Regarded Until Now As Pure Luxury.

But If The Longing For The Achievement Of The Goal Is Powerfully Alive Within Us, Then Shall We Not Lack The Strength To Find The Means For Reaching The Goal And For Translating It Into Deeds.

I No Longer Believed In The Known God Of The Bible, But Rather In The Mysterious God Expressed In Nature.

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.

E Idea Of A Personal God Is Quite Alien To Me And Seems Even Naive. However, I Am Also Not A "freethinker" In The Usual Sense Of The Word Because I Find That This Is In The Main An Attitude Nourished Exclusively By An Opposition Against Naive Superstition. My Feeling Is Insofar Religious As I Am Imbued With The Consciousness Of The Insuffiency Of The Human Mind To Understand Deeply The Harmony Of The Universe Which We Try To Formulate As "laws Of Nature." It Is This Consciousness And Humility I Miss In The Freethinker Mentality. Sincerely Yours, Albert Einstein.

Out Of The Clutter Find Simplicity

I Cannot Conceive Of A Personal God Who Would Directly Influence The Actions Of Individuals, Or Would Directly Sit In Judgment On Creatures Of His Own Creation.

If You Took Half Of Something And Continued To Take Half Of That Half And So On, You Would Never Reach An End.

I Am Not An Atheist. I Do Not Know If I Can Define Myself As A Pantheist. The Problem Involved Is Too Vast For Our Limited Minds.

Everyone Likes Me, Yet Nobody Understands Me.

Nobody Understands Me

It Takes A Different Kind Of Thinking To Solve A Problem Than The Kind Of Thinking Which Produced The Problem.

Subtle Is The Lord. Malicious, He Is Not.

The More I Learn, The More I Realize I Don't Know.

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

Small Is The Number Of Them That See With Their Own Eyes And Feel With Their Own Hearts.

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

Weakness Of Attitude Becomes Weakness Of Character; It Becomes Lack Of Power To Act With Courage Proportionate To Danger. All This Must Lead To The Destruction Of Our Intellectual Life Unless The Danger Summons Up Strong Personalities Able To Fill The Lukewarm And Discouraged With New Strength And Resolution.

Toreador Pants Make Your Feet Look Big Too

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

For Me A Simple Message, To Think And Act With Courage, Independence And Imagination.

The World Is A Dangerous Place To Live

Dangerous World

Even If Only 2 Percent Of Those Assigned To Perform Military Service Should Announce Their Refusal To Fight, Governments Would Be Powerless, They Would Not Dare Send Such A Large Number Of People To Jail.

War Cannot Be Humanized. It Can Only Be Abolished.

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

But The Creative Principle Resides In Mathematics. In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

I Fully Agree With You About The Significance And Educational Value Of As Well As History And Philosophy Of Science. So Many People Today - And Even Professional - Seem To Me Like Someone Who Has Seen Thousands Of Trees But Has Never Seen A Forest. A Knowledge Of The Historic And Philosophical Background Gives That Kind Of Independence From Prejudices Of His Generation From Which Most Scientists Are Suffering. This Independence Created By Philosophical Insight Is - In My Opinion - The Mark Of Distinction Between A Mere Artisan Or Specialist And A Real Seeker After Truth.

Berlin Is The Place To Which I Am Most Closely Bound By Human And Scientific Ties.

Good Acts Are Like Good Poems. One May Easily Get Their Drift, But They Are Not Rationally Understood.

Nobody Knows How The Stand Of Our Knowledge About The Atom Would Be Without Him. Personally, [niels] Bohr Is One Of The Amiable Colleagues I Have Met. He Utters His Opinions Like One Perpetually Groping And Never Like One Who Believes Himself To Be In Possession Of The Truth.

About Newton: Nature To Him Was An Open Book, Whose Letters He Could Read Without Effort.

Stupidity Is A Personal Achievement Which Transcends National Boundaries.

A Man Who Is Convinced Of The Truth Of His Religion Is Indeed Never Tolerant. At The Least, He Is To Feel Pity For The Adherent Of Another Religion But Usually It Does Not Stop There. The Faithful Adherent Of A Religion Will Try First Of All To Convince Those That Believe In Another Religion And Usually He Goes On To Hatred If He Is Not Successful. However, Hatred Then Leads To Persecution When The Might Of The Majority Is Behind It.

Few People Are Capable Of Expressing With Equanimity Opinions Which Differ From The Prejudices Of Their Social Environment. Most People Are Even Incapable Of Forming Such Opinions.

Never Memorize What You Can Look Up In A Book.

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

A Knowledge Of The Existence Of Something We Cannot Penetrate, Of The Manifestations Of The Profoundest Reason And The Most Radiant Beauty - It Is This Knowledge And This Emotion That Constitute The Truly Religious Attitude; In This Sense, And In This Alone, I Am A Deeply Religious Man.

I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited, Whereas Imagination Embraces The Entire World, Stimulating Progress, Giving Birth To Evolution. It Is, Strictly Speaking, A Real Factor In Scientific Research.

In A Healthy Nation There Is A Kind Of Dramatic Balance Between The Will Of The People And The Government, Which Prevents Its Degeneration Into Tyranny.

It Is This Mythical, Or Rather Symbolic, Content Of The Religious Traditions Which Is Likely To Come Into Conflict With Science. This Occurs Whenever This Religious Stock Of Ideas Contains Dogmatically Fixed Statements On Subjects Which Belong In The Domain Of Science.

The Hardest Thing To Understand In The World Is The Income Tax.

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

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

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

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.

... Knowledge Must Continually Be Renewed By Ceaseless Effort, If It Is Not To Be Lost. It Resembles A Statue Of Marble Which Stands In The Desert And Is Continually Threatened With Burial By The Shifting Sand. The Hands Of Service Must Ever Be At Work, In Order That The Marble Continue To Lastingly Shine In The Sun. To These Serving Hands Mine Shall Also Belong.

It Is The Theory That Decides What Can Be Observed.

When I Think Of The Most Able Students I Have Encountered In My Teaching - I Mean Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves Not Only By Skill But By Independence Of Thought - Then I Must Confess That All Have Had A Lively Interest In Epistemology.

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

Work Is The Only Thing That Gives Substance To Life.

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.

When I Was Young, All I Wanted And Expected From Life Was To Sit Quietly In Some Corner Doing My Work Without The Public Paying Attention To Me. And Now See What Has Become Of Me.

From Discord, Find Harmony.

All Meaningful And Lasting Change Starts First In Your Imagination And Then Works Its Way Out. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

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.

I Have No Special Talent. I Am Only Passionately Curious. The Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning. Curiousity Has Its Own Reason For Existing.

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

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

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.

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.

You See, Wire Telegraph Is A Kind Of A Very, Very Long Cat. You Pull His Tail In New York And His Head Is Meowing In Los Angeles. Do You Understand This? And Radio Operates Exactly The Same Way: You Send Signals Here, They Receive Them There. The Only Difference Is That There Is No Cat.

If You've Never Failed, You've Never Tried Anything New.

Short Inspirational Life

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

Hail To The Man Who Went Through Life Always Helping Others, Knowing No Fear, And To Whom Aggressiveness And Resentment Are Alien. Such Is The Stuff Of Which The Great Moral Leaders Are Made.

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.

Understanding Of Our Fellow Human Beings...becomes Fruitful Only When It Is Sustained By Sympathetic Feelings In Joy And Sorrow.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

The Thing Is, Not To Stop Questioning.

Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun.

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

Creativity Is The Residue Of Time Wasted.

Academic Chairs Are Many, But Wise And Noble Teachers Are Few; Lecture-rooms Are Numerous And Large, But The Number Of Young People Who Genuinely Thirst After Truth And Justice Is Small

For Me The Jewish Religion Like All Other Religions Is An Incarnation Of The Most Childish Superstitions.

It Is Certainly True That Principles Cannot Be More Securely Founded Than On Experience And Consciously Clear Thinking.

It Is Only To The Individual That A Soul Is Given. And The High Destiny Of The Individual Is To Serve Rather Than To Rule, Or To Impose Himself In Any Other Way.

An Oligarchy Of Private Capital Cannot Be Effectively Checked Even By A Democratically Organized Political Society Because Under Existing Conditions, Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information.

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

Knowledge Exists In Two Forms - Lifeless, Stored In Books, And Alive, In The Consciousness Of Men. The Second Form Of Existence Is After All The Essential One; The First, Indispensable As It May Be, Occupies Only An Inferior Position.

One Should Respect An Honest Person Even If He Expresses Opinions Differing From One's Own.

Through The Release Of Atomic Energy, Our Generation Has Brought Into The World The Most Revolutionary Force Since Prehistoric Man's Discovery Of Fire. This Basic Force Of The Universe Cannot Be Fitted Into The Outmoded Concept Of Narrow Nationalisms.

The Analogy I Like Is This Imagine Being Able To See The World But You Are Deaf, And Then Suddenly Someone Gives You The Ability To Hear Things As Well - You Get An Extra Dimension Of Perception.

Physics Is An Attempt Conceptually To Grasp Reality As Something That Is Considered To Be Independent Of Its Being Observed. In This Sense One Speaks Of Physical Reality.

It Is My Fate To Be Considered An Authority, Since I Spent My Youth Rebelling Against It.

Live Life To The Fullest. You Have To Color Outside The Lines Once In A While If You Want To Make Your Life A Masterpiece. Laugh Some Every Day. Keep Growing, Keep Dreaming, Keep Following Your Heart. The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning.

The Most Important Method Of Education Always Has Consisted Of That In Which The Pupil Was Urged To Actual Performance.

A Ship Is Safe At Shore But It's Not Built For That.

I Cannot Conceive Of A God Who Rewards And Punishes His Creatures, Or Has A Will Of The Kind That We Experience In Ourselves. Neither Can I Nor Would I Want To Conceive Of An Individual That Survives His Physical Death; Let Feeble Souls, From Fear Or Absurd Egoism, Cherish Such Thoughts. I Am Satisfied With The Mystery Of The Eternity Of Life And With The Awareness And A Glimpse Of The Marvelous Structure Of The Existing World, Together With The Devoted Striving To Comprehend A Portion, Be It Ever So Tiny, Of The Reason That Manifests Itself In Nature.

It Is An Outcome Of Faith That Nature-as She Is Perceptible To Our Five Senses-takes The Character Of Such A Well Formulated Puzzle.

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

Convictions Can Best Be Supported With Experience And Clear Thinking.

Time And Space Are Not Conditions Of Existence, Time And Space Is A Model For Thinking

Manager Solves Problems, Leader Prevents Them.

I Prefer An Attitude Of Humility Corresponding To The Weakness Of Our Intellectual Understanding Of Nature And Of Our Own Being.

What The Individual Can Do Is To Give A Fine Example, And To Have The Courage To Uphold Ethical Values .. In A Society Of Cynics.

Words Of Wisdom

Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.

Imagination Is Vastly More Important Than Intelligence.

Solitude Is Painful When One Is Young, But Delightful When One Is More Mature.

But Love Brings Much Happiness - Much More So Than Pining Brings Pain.

One Has A Feeling That One Has A Kind Of Home In This Timeless Community Of Human Beings That Strive For Truth. ... I Have Always Believed That Jesus Meant By The Kingdom Of God The Small Group Scattered All Through Time Of Intellectually And Ethically Valuable People.

Mozart's Music Is So Pure And Beautiful That I See It As A Reflection Of The Inner Beauty Of The Universe.

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