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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.

-Albert Einstein

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To A Student: Dear

Albert Einstein

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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.

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Information Is Not Knowledge.

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

I Do Not Believe In Race As Such. Race Is A Fraud. All Modern People Are The Conglomeration Of So Many Ethnic Mixtures That No Pure Race Remains.

I Cannot Accept Any Concept Of God Based On The Fear Of Life Or The Fear Of Death, Or Blind Faith. I Cannot Prove To You That There Is No Personal God, But If I Were To Speak Of Him I Would Be A Liar.

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.

Anyone Can Be A Genius, If They Pick Just One Specific Subject And Study It Diligently Just 15 Minutes Each Day.

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.

America Is Today The Hope Of All Honorable Men Who Respect The Rights Of Their Fellow Men And Who Believe In The Principle Of Freedom And Justice.

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

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

I Believe That We Don't Need To Worry About What Happens After This Life, As Long As We Do Our Duty Here-to Love And To Serve.

Problems Cannot Be Solved By Thinking Within The Framework In Which The Problems Were Created.

Striving For Social Justice Is The Most Valuable Thing To Do In Life.

The Human Mind Has First To Construct Forms, Independently, Before We Can Find Them In Things.

We Should Take Care Not To Make The Intellect Our God; It Has, Of Course, Powerful Muscles, But No Personality.

You Accept The Historical Jesus?

For Science Can Only Ascertain What Is, But Not What Should Be, And Outside Of Its Domain Value Judgments Of All Kinds Remain Necessary. Religion, On The Other Hand, Deals Only With Evaluations Of Human Thought And Action: It Cannot Justifiably Speak Of Facts And Relationships Between Facts.

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

Only A Monomaniac Gets Anything Done.

Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose. From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That Man Is Here For The Sake Of Other Men - Above All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Depends.

Adversity Introduces A Man To Himself.

War Seems To Me To Be A Mean, Contemptible Thing: I Would Rather Be Hacked In Pieces Than Take Part In Such An Abominable Business. And Yet So High, In Spite Of Everything, Is My Opinion Of The Human Race That I Believe This Bogey Would Have Disappeared Long Ago, Had The Sound Sense Of The Nations Not Been Systematically Corrupted By Commercial And Political Interests Acting Through The Schools And The Press

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

In The Midst Of Every Crisis, Lies Great Opportunity.

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

Why Is It That No One Understands Me And Everybody Likes Me

The Trouble With The Younger Generation Is That They Don't Stay Young For Very Long.

The Equation For Ego Is: One Over Knowledge.

Lasting Harmony With A Woman (was) An Undertaking In Which I Twice Failed Rather Disgracefully.

Anyone Who Thinks Science Is Trying To Make Human Life Easier Or More Pleasant Is Utterly Mistaken.

I Believe That Whoever Tries To Think Things Through Honestly Will Soon Recognize How Unworthy And Even Fatal Is The Traditional Bias Against Negroes. What Can The Man Of Good Will Do To Combat This Deeply Rooted Prejudice? He Must Have The Courage To Set An Example By Words And Deed, And Must Watch Lest His Children Become Influenced By Racial Bias.

I Have Yet To Meet A Single Person From Our Culture, No Matter What His Or Her Educational Background, Iq, And Specific Training, Who Had Powerful Transpersonal Experiences And Continues To Subscribe To The Materialistic Monism Of Western Science.

The Aim Of Science Is, On The One Hand, As Complete A Comprehension As Possible Of The Connection Between Perceptible Experiences In Their Totality, And, On The Other Hand, The Achievement Of This Aim By Employing A Minimum Of Primary Concepts And Relations.

Playfullness Is The Essential Feature Of Productive Thought.

One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.

The Most Incomprehensible Thing About The World Is That It Is Comprehensible.

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

I Have Reached An Age Where If Someone Tells Me To Wear Socks, I Dont Have To

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

[ernest Rutherford Is]...a Second Newton.

Great Spirits Often Meet Violent Oppisition With Mediocre Minds.

Nothing Will End War Unless The Peoples Themselves Refuse To Go To War.

Generations To Come Will Find It Difficult To Believe That A Man Such As Gandhi Ever Walked The Face Of This Earth.

I Have Always Eaten Animal Flesh With A Somewhat Guilty Conscience.

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].

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

The Contemplation Of This World Beckoned Like A Liberation

People Start Their Lives At Last When They Are Able To Live For Something Other Than Themselves.

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

If A Theory Can Not Be Explained To A Child, Then The Theory Is Probably Worthless.

Time And Space Are Modes By Which We Think And Not Conditions In Which We Live.

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

Each Possession I Own Is But A Stone Around My Neck.

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

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

The Only Real Valuable Thing Is Intuition. The Intellect Has Little To Do On The Road To Discovery

It Is Our American Habit If We Find The Foundations Of Our Educational Structure Unsatisfactory To Add Another Story Or Wing. We Find It Easier To Add A New Study Or Course Or Kind Of School Than To Recognize Existing Conditions So As To Meet The Need. Strangled The Holy Curious Of Inquiry. 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.

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

We Dance For Laughter, We Dance For Tears, We Dance For Madness, We Dance For Fears, We Dance For Hopes, We Dance For Screams, We Are The Dancers, We Create The Dreams.

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

Ever Since Childhood I Have Scorned The Commonplace Limits So Often Set Upon Human Ambition. Possessions, Outward Success, Publicity, Luxury - To Me These Have Always Been Contemptible. I Believe That A Simple And Unassuming Manner Of Life Is Best For Everyone; Best Both For The Body And The Mind

I Want To Be Cremated So People Won't Come To Worship At My Bones.

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.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge.

The Leaves And The Light Are One.

Without Changing Our Pattern Of Thought, We Will Not Be Able To Solve The Problems We Created With Our Current Patterns Of Thought

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

This Has Been Done Elegantly By Minkowski; But Chalk Is Cheaper Than Grey Matter, And We Will Do It As It Comes.

I Never Said Half The Crap People Said I Did.

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

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Only A Life Lived For Others Is A Life Worthwhile.

It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. 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.

An Expert Is A Person Who Has Few New Ideas; A Beginner Is A Person With Many.

I Am Not A Positivist. Positivism States That What Cannot Be Observed Does Not Exist. This Conception Is Scientifically Indefensible, For It Is Impossible To Make Valid Affirmations Of What People 'can' Or 'cannot' Observe. One Would Have To Say 'only What We Observe Exists,' Which Is Obviously False.

The Supreme Task Of The Physicist Is To Arrive At Those Universal Elementary Laws From Which The Cosmos Can Be Built Up By Pure Deduction. There Is No Logical Path To These Laws; Only Intuition, Resting On Sympathetic Understanding Of Experience, Can Reach Them.

You Cannot Beat A Roulette Table Unless You Steal Money From It.

The Discovery Of Nuclear Reactions Need Not Bring About The Destruction Of Mankind Any More Than The Discovery Of Matches.

The Consequence Was A Positively Fanatic [orgy Of] Freethinking Coupled With The Impression That Youth Is Being Deceived By The State Through Lies; It Was A Crushing Impression

A Problem Defined, Is A Problem Half Solved.

If One Asks The Whence Derives The Authority Of Fundamental Ends, Since They Cannot Be Stated And Justified Merely By Reason, One Can Only Answer: They Exist In A Healthy Society As Powerful Traditions, Which Act Upon The Conduct And Aspirations And Judgments Of The Individuals; They Are There, That Is, As Something Living, Without Its Being Necessary To Find Justification For Their Existence.

Wisdom Is Not A Product Of Schooling But Of The Lifelong Attempt To Acquire It.

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

The Harmony Of Natural Law Reveals An Intelligence Of Such Superiority That, Compared With It, All The Systematic Thinking And Acting Of Human Beings Is An Utterly Insignificant Reflection.

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

Nuclear Power Is One Hell Of A Way To Boil Water

The Monotony And Solitude Of A Quiet Life Stimulates The Creative Mind.

Modern Education Is Competitive, Nationalistic And Separative. It Has Trained The Child To Regard Material Values As Of Major Importance, To Believe That His Nation Is Also Of Major Importance And Superior To Other Nations And Peoples. The General Level Of World Information Is High But Usually Biased, Influenced By National Prejudices, Serving To Make Us Citizens Of Our Nation But Not Of The World.

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.

The Years Of Searching In The Dark For A Truth That One Feels But Cannot Express, The Intense Desire And The Alternations Of Confidence And Misgiving Until One Breaks Through To Clarity And Understanding, Are Known Only To Him Who Has Experienced Them Himself.

Our Defense Is Not In Our Armaments, Nor In Science, Nor In Going Underground. Our Defense Is In Law And Order.

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

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 Truth Of A Theory Is In Your Mind, Not In Your Eyes.

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

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Try Not To Become A Man Of Success, But A Man Of Value. Look Around At How People Want To Get More Out Of Life Than They Put In. A Man Of Value Will Give More Than He Receives. Be Creative, But Make Sure That What You Create Is Not A Curse For Mankind.

...intelligence And Character Of The Masses Are Incomparably Lower Than The Intelligence And Character Of The Few Who Produce Something Valuable For The Community.

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

If I Had Foreseen Hiroshima And Nagasaki, I Would Have Torn Up My Formula In 1905.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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

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.

How Was I Able To Live Alone Before, My Little Everything? Without You I Lack Self-confidence, Passion For Work, And Enjoyment Of Life--in Short, Without You, My Life Is No Life. [written To His Wife, Mileva]

Self Confidence

What Counts Can't Always Be Counted; What Can Be Counted Doesn't Always Count.

Once Again You Are Wrong Sir, Darkness Does Not Exist Either. Darkness Is In Reality The Absence Of Light. Light We Can Study, But Not Darkness. In Fact We Can Use Newton's Prism To Break White Light Into Many Colors And Study The Various Wavelengths Of Each Color. You Cannot Measure Darkness. A Simple Ray Of Light Can Break Into A World Of Darkness And Illuminate It. How Can You Know How Dark A Certain Space Is? You Measure The Amount Of Light Present. Isn't This Correct? Darkness Is A Term Used By Man To Describe What Happens When There Is No Light Present.

The Measure Of Intelligence Is The Ability To Change.

Conscious Man, To Be Sure, Has At All Times Been Keenly Aware That Life Is An Adventure, That Life Must, Forever, Be Wrested From Death.

No Idea Is Conceived In Our Mind Independent Of Our Five Senses [i.e., No Idea Is Divinely Inspired].

There Exists A Passion For Comprehension, Just As There Exists A Passion For Music. That Passion Is Rather Common In Children, But Gets Lost In Most People Later On. Without This Passion There Would Be Neither Mathematics Nor Natural Science.

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

No Fairer Destiny Could Be Allotted To Any Physical Theory Than That It Should Of Itself Point Out The Way To The Introduction Of A More Comprehensive Theory, In Which It Lives On As A Limiting Case.

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

The American Lives Even More For His Goals, For The Future, Than The European. Life For Him Is Always Becoming, Never Being.

Condemnation Before Investigation Is The Highest Form Of Ignorance.

Not All That Counts, Can Be Counted

Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge.

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.

He Who Can No Longer Pause To Wonder And Stand Rapt In Awe, Is As Good As Dead; His Eyes Are Closed.

This Is Too Difficult For A Mathematician. It Takes A Philosopher. The Hardest Thing In The World To Understand Is The Income Tax.

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

I Refuse To Make Money Out Of My Science. My Laurel Is Not For Sale Like So Many Bales Of Cotton.

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.

Marriage Is But Slavery Made To Appear Civilized.

This Crippling Of Individuals I Consider The Worst Evil Of Capitalism. Our Whole Educational System Suffers From This Evil. An Exaggerated Competitive Attitude Is Inculcated Into The Student, Who Is Trained To Worship Acquisitive Success As A Preparation For His Future.

Most People See What Is, And Never See What Can Be.

I Owe As Much Of My Success To An Uncompromising Obstinacy As To Any Original Ideas.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today.

The Most Valuable Thing A Teacher Can Impart To Children Is Not Knowledge And Understanding Per Se But A Longing For Knowledge And Understanding, And An Appreciation For Intellectual Values, Whether They Be Artistic, Scientific, Or Moral. It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge. Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Questions That Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know, Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Is To Discover What The Pupil Does Know Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

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.

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 Individual Who Has Experienced Solitude Will Not Easily Become A Victim Of Mass Suggestion.

I Think 99 Times And Find Nothing. I Stop Thinking, Swim In The Silence, And The Truth Comes To Me.

The Payment Of The Worker Is Not Determined By The Value Of His Product.

As Soon As Science Has Emerged From Its Initial Stages, Theoretical Advances Are No Longer Achieved Merely By A Process Of Arrangement. Guided By Empirical Data, The Investigator Rather Develops A System Of Thought Which, In General, Is Built Up Logically From A Small Number Of Fundamental Assumptions, The So-called Axioms. We Call Such A System Of Thought A Theory. The Theory Finds The Justification For Its Existence In The Fact That It Correlates A Large Number Of Single Observations, And It Is Just Here That The 'truth' Of The Theory Lies.

Imagination Is Greater Than Knowledge.

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.

As Long As I Have Any Choice In The Matter, I Shall Live Only In A Country Where Civil Liberty, Tolerance And Equality Of All Citizens Before The Law Prevail.

The Strength Of The Constitution Lies Entirely In The Determination Of Each Citizen To Defend It. Only If Every Single Citizen Feels Duty Bound To Do His Share In This Defense Are The Constitutional Rights Secure.

Look Deep Into Nature, And Then You Will Understand Everything Better.

The Most Important Tool Of The Theoretical Physicist Is His Wastebasket.

When The Nazis Came To Power, I Looked To The Universities That Prided Themselves Upon Their Intellectual Freedom, And They Failed Me. I Looked To The German Press, Which Prided Itself On The Freedom Of The Press, And It Failed Me. Until At Last The Churches Stood Alone, And That For Which I Once Had Little Regard Earned My Respect.

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.

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

Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle. If You Want To Stay Balanced You've Got To Keep Moving Forward.

Be A Loner. That Gives You Time To Wonder, To Search For The Truth. Have Holy Curiosity. Make Your Life Worth Living.

Imagination Is Everything. It Is The Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions.

The One Who Walks Alone, Is Likely To Find Himself In Places No One Has Ever Been.

Being Different

Following The Crowd

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.

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.

About God, I Cannot Accept Any Concept Based On The Authority Of The Church... As Long As I Can Remember. I Have Resented Mass Indoctrination. I Cannot Prove To You There Is No Personal God, But If I Were To Speak Of Him, I Would Be A Liar. I Do Not Believe In The God Of Theology Who Rewards Good And Punishes Evil. His Universe Is Not Ruled By Wishful Thinking, But By Immutable Laws

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

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

It's Not That I'm So Smart, It's Just That I Stay With Problems Longer.

Jesus Is Too Colossal For The Pen Of Phrasemongers, However Artful. No Man Can Dispose Of Christianity With A Bon Mot

I Have Never Obtained Any Ethical Values From My Scientific Work.

What Is This Frog And Mouse Battle Among The Mathematicians?

I Believe That Whatever We Do Or Live For Has Its Causality; It Is Good, However, That We Cannot See Through To It.

Convictions Can Best Be Supported With Experience And Clear Thinking.

If The Bees Disappear, Man Would Have Only Four Years Of Life Left.

Imagination Without Knowledge May Create Beautiful Things, Knowledge Without Imagination Can Create Only Perfect Ones.

If You Can't Explain What You Are Doing To A Nine-year-old, Then Either You Still Don't Understand It Very Well, Or It's Not All That Worthwile In The First Place.

I Do Not Share The Crusading Spirit Of The Professional Atheist Whose Fervor Is Mostly Due To A Painful Act Of Liberation From The Fetters Of Religious Indoctrination Received In Youth. I Prefer An Attitude Of Humility Corresponding To The Weakness Of Our Intellectual Understanding Of Nature And Of Our Own Being.

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

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

You Imagine That I Look Back On My Life's Work With Calm Satisfaction. But From Nearby It Looks Quite Different. There Is Not A Single Concept Of Which I Am Convinced That It Will Stand Firm, And I Feel Uncertain Whether I Am In General On The Right Track.

One Should Not Pursue Goals That Are Easily Achieved. One Must Develop An Instinct For What One Can Just Barely Achieve Through One’s Greatest Efforts.

Genius Is When An Idea And The Execution Of That Idea Are Simultaneous.

We Are Part Of The Whole Which We Call The Universe, But It Is An Optical Delusion Of Our Mind That We Think We Are Separate. This Separateness Is Like A Prison For Us. Our Job Is To Widen The Circle Of Our Compassion So We Feel Connected With All People And Situations.

Only World Law Can Assure Progress Towards A Civilized Peaceful Community.

When I'm Judging A Theory, I Ask Myself Whether, If I Were God, I Would Have Arranged The World In Such A Way.

The Most Superior Of Scientific Goals Is To Embrace A Maximum Of Experiment With A Minimum Of Hypotheses.

The Heart Says Yes, But The Mind Says No.

My Internal And External Life Depend So Much On The Work Of Others That I Must Make An Extreme Effort To Give As Much As I Receive.

The Bigotry Of The Nonbeliever Is For Me Nearly As Funny As The Bigotry Of The Believer.

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force. It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding. You Cannot Subjugate A Nation Forcibly Unless You Wipe Out Every Man, Woman, And Child. Unless You Wish To Use Such Drastic Measures, You Must Find A Way Of Settling Your Disputes Without Resort To Arms.

God Has Given Me A Mule-like Stubbornness To Stick With A Difficult Problem And The Intuitive Powers To Conceptualize Complex Hypothetical Situations In My Mind.

The World Is So Full Of Possibilities That Dogmatism Is Simply Indecent.

Curiosity Has Its Own Reason For Existence.

... On Principle, It Is Quite Wrong To Try Founding A Theory On Observable Magnitudes Alone. In Reality The Very Opposite Happens. It Is The Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe.

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

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

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

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

A Finely Tempered Nature Longs To Escape From The Personal Life Into The World Of Objective Perception And Thought.

The Value Of A Man Resides In What He Gives

Giving Not Receiving

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

If You Want Your Children To Be Smart, Tell Them Stories. If You Want Them To Be Really Smart, Tell Them More Stories. If You Want Your Children To Be Brilliant, Tell Them Even More Stories.

I Like To Think The Moon Is There Even If I Am Not Looking At It.

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

There Are Yet People Who Say There Is No God. But What Really Makes Me Angry Is That They Quote Me For The Support Of Such Views

In Music I Do Not Look For Logic. I Am Quite Intuitive On The Whole And Know No Theories. I Never Like A Work If I Cannot Intuitively Grasp Its Inner Unity (architecture).

I Wouldn't Want To Live If I Did Not Have My Work. In Any Case, It's Good That I'm Already Old And Personally Don't Have To Count On A Prolonged Future.

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

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.

Dear Posterity, If You Have Not Become More Just, More Peaceful, And In General More Sensible... Then May The Devil Take You!

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