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When I Was Still A Rather Precocious Young Man, I Already Realized Most Vividly The Futility Of The Hopes And Aspirations That Most Men Pursue Throughout Their Lives.

Futility Of Life

The Future Is An Unknown, But A Somewhat Predictable Unknown. To Look To The Future We Must First Look Back Upon The Past. That Is Where The Seeds Of The Future Were Planted. I Never Think Of The Future. It Comes Soon Enough.

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

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

I Have Firmly Decided To Bite The Dust With A Minimum Of Medical Assistance When My Time Comes, And Up To Then To Sin To My Wicked Heart's Content.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited To All We Now Know And Understand, While Imagination Embraces The Entire World, And All There Ever Will Be To Know And Understand.

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.

The Most Important Human Endeavor Is The Striving For Morality In Our Actions.

Science Can Only State What Is, Not What Should Be.

Condemnation Before Investigation Is The Highest Form Of Ignorance.

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

Education Is Not Received. It Is Achieved.

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.

There's No Question Dolphins Are Smarter Than Humans As They Play More.

I Never Thought That Others Would Take My Theories So Much More Seriously Than I Did.

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

[misquotation; Not By Einstein.] If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker. [apparently Remorseful For His Role In The Development Of The Atom Bomb.]

We Must Not Only Learn To Tolerate Our Differences. We Must Welcome Them As The Richness And Diversity Which Can Lead To True Intelligence.

Philosophers Play With The Word, Like A Child With A Doll.... It Does Not Mean That Everything In Life Is Relative.

We Must Be Prepared To Make The Same Heroic Sacrifices For The Cause Of Peace That We Make Ungrudgingly For The Cause Of War.

Dear Habicht, / Such A Solemn Air Of Silence Has Descended Between Us That I Almost Feel As If I Am Committing A Sacrilege When I Break It Now With Some Inconsequential Babble... / What Are You Up To, You Frozen Whale, You Smoked, Dried, Canned Piece Of Soul...?

Realising The Healthy International Relations Can Be Created Only Among Populations Made Up Of Individuals Who Themselves Are Healthy And Enjoy A Measure A Independence, The United Nations Elaborated A Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Which Was Adopted By The U.n. General Assembly On December 10, 1948.

Happiness, As A Pursuit, Is Suitable Only For Pigs.

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.

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

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

Concerning Matter, We Have Been All Wrong. What We Have Called Matter Is Energy, Whose Vibration Has Been So Lowered As To Be Perceptible To The Senses. There Is No Matter.

Earth Is The Insane Asylum Of The Universe.

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.

In Living Through This Great Epoch, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Oneself To The Fact That One Belongs To That Mad, Degenerate Species That Boasts Of Its Free Will. How I Wish That Somewhere There Existed An Island For Those Who Are Wise And Of Good Will. In Such A Place Even I Should Be An Ardent Patriot!

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.

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

Don't Do Anything That Goes Against Your Conscience, Even If Your Country Says So.

When I Have One Week To Solve A Seemingly Impossible Problem, I Spend Six Days Defining The Problem. Then, The Solution Becomes Obvious.

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.

Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels.

The Only Justifiable Purpose Of Political Institutions Is To Ensure The Unhindered Development Of The Individual.

Fantasie Is Belangrijker Dan Kennis, Want Kennis Is Begrensd.

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.

Intellectual Growth Should Commence At Birth And Cease Only At Death.

One Should Never Impose One's Views On A Problem; One Should Rather Study It, And In Time A Solution Will Reveal Itself.

Creative Solutions

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

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

It May Be Possible To Fight Intolerance, Stupidity, And Fanaticism Seperately, But When They Come Together There Is No Hope.

I Said Before, The Most Beautiful And Most Profound Religious Emotion That We Can Experience Is The Sensation Of The Mystical. And This Mysticality Is The Power Of All True Science. If There Is Any Such Concept As A God, It Is A Subtle Spirit, Not An Image Of A Man That So Many Have Fixed In Their Minds. In Essence, My Religion Consists Of A Humble Admiration For This Illimitable Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Slight Details That We Are Able To Perceive With Our Frail And Feeble Minds.

Experience Is Knowledge. All The Rest Is Information.

How Can It Be That Mathematics, Being After All A Product Of Human Thought Which Is Independent Of Experience, Is So Admirably Appropriate To The Objects Of Reality?

It Is Only Men Who Are Free, Who Create The Inventions And Intellectual Works Which To Us Moderns Make Life Worth While.

Failure Is Success In Progress

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.

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

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

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

Overpopulation In Various Countries Has Become A Serious Threat To The Health Of People And A Grave Obstacle To Any Attempt To Organise Peace On This Planet

I Don't Need To Know Everything, I Just Need To Know Where To Find It, When I Need It

Hitler Appeared, A Man With Limited Intellectual Abilities And Unfit For Any Useful Work, Bursting With Envy And Bitterness Against All Whom Circumstance And Nature Had Favored Over Him....in His Desperate Ambition For Power He Discovered That His Speeches, Confused And Pervaded With Hate As They Were, Received Wild Acclaim By Those Whose Situation And Orientation Resembled His Own. He Picked Up This Human Flotsam On The Streets And In The Taverns And Organized Them Around Himself. This Is The Way He Launched His Political Career.

I Love To Travel, But Hate To Arrive.

Education Is What Remains After One Has Forgotten What One Has Learned In School.

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

Younger Generation

I Am A Stronger Follower Of Veganism By Principle, Not Just Because Of Moral And Aesthetic Reasons. I Truly Believe In A Vegetarian Lifestyle And I Have Faith And Hopes In Change In Human Destiny, Thanks To The Physical Effects And Benefits Of A Healthier Diet And Its Influence On The Character Of The People. It Will Bring About Some Benefit And Improvement To Human Society.

I Believe In Standardizing Automobiles. I Do Not Believe In Standardizing Human Beings. Standardization Is A Great Peril Which Threatens American Culture.

The Idea Of A Personal God Is An Anthropological Concept Which I Am Unable To Take Seriously.

It Is Impossible To Get Out Of A Problem By Using The Same Kind Of Thinking That It Took To Get Into It.

Mere Thinking Cannot Reveal To Us The Highest Purpose.

Everybody Should Be Ashamed Who Uses The Wonders Of Science And Engineering Without Thinking And Having Mentally Realized Not More Of It Than A Cow Realizes Of The Botany Of The Plants Which It Eats With Pleasure.

One Can Only Continue To Expect To Be Read If One Omits Everything That Is Unimportant.

The Tragedy Of Life Is What Dies In The Hearts And Souls Of People While They Live.

In The Midst Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

There Is No Salvation For Civilization, Or Even The Human Race, Other Than The Creation Of A World Government.

World Government

The Only Justification For Our Concepts And Systems Of Concepts Is That They Serve To Represent The Complex Of Our Experiences; Beyond This They Have Not Legitimacy.

The Conflict That Exists Today Is No More Than An Old-style Struggle For Power, Once Again Presented To Mankind In Semireligious Trappings. The Difference Is That, This Time, The Development Of Atomic Power Has Imbued The Struggle With A Ghostly Character; For Both Parties Know And Admit That, Should The Quarrel Deteriorate Into Actual War, Mankind Is Doomed.

Our World Faces A Crisis As Yet Unperceived By Those Possessing Power To Make Great Decisions For Good Or Evil. The Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Save Our Modes Of Thinking And We Thus Drift Toward Unparalleled Catastrophe.

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.

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

To Obtain An Assured Favorable Response From People, It Is Better To Offer Them Something For Their Stomachs Instead Of Their Brains.

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.)

I Have Remained A Simple Fellow Who Asks Nothing Of The World; Only My Youth Is Gone - The Enchanting Youth That Forever Walks On Air.

I Have Also Considered Many Scientific Plans During My Pushing You Around In Your Pram!

One Ought To Be Ashamed To Make Use Of The Wonders Of Science Embodied In A Radio Set, The While Appreciating Them As Little As A Cow Appreciates The Botanic Marvels In The Plants She Munches.

One Cannot Deal With A Problem With The Same Thinking That Creates It.

I Have Reached The Conviction That The Abolition Of The Death Penalty Is Desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability In The Event Of An Error Of Justice, 2) Detrimental Moral Influence Of The Execution Procedure On Those Who, Whether Directly Or Indirectly, Have To Do With The Procedure.

The Strongest Force In The Universe Is Compound Interest.

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation, Whose Purposes Are Modeled After Our Own -- A God, In Short, Who Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty. Neither Can I Believe That The Individual Survives The Death Of His Body, Although Feeble Souls Harbor Such Thoughts Through Fear Or Ridiculous Egotisms.

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.

What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or Of Organic Life Altogether? To Answer This Question At All Implies A Religion.

Human Beings, In Their Thinking, Feeling And Acting Are Not Free Agents But Are As Causally Bound As The Stars In Their Motion.

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.

I Was Originally Supposed To Become An Engineer But The Thought Of Having To Expend My Creative Energy On Things That Make Practical Everyday Life Even More Refined, With A Loathsome Capital Gain As The Goal, Was Unbearable To Me.

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

To Be Sure, It Is Not The Fruits Of Scientific Research That Elevate A Man And Enrich His Nature, But The Urge To Understand, The Intellectual Work, Creative Or Receptive.

The Mind Can Proceed Only So Far Upon What It Knows And Can Prove. There Comes A Point Where The Mind Takes A Higher Plane Of Knowledge, But Can Never Prove How It Got There. All Great Discoveries Have Involved Such A Leap

All Such Action Would Cease If Those Powerful Elemental Forces Were To Cease Stirring Within Us.

A Man Has To Work So Hard So That Something Of His Personality Stays Alive. A Tomcat Has It So Easy, He Has Only To Spray And His Presence Is There For Years On Rainy Days.

It Is Important To Foster Individuality, For Only The Individual Can Produce The New Ideas.

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

Not All Things Worth Counting Are Countable And Not All Things That Count Are Worth Counting.

Concern For Man Himself Must Always Constitute The Chief Objective Of All Technological Effort

Man's Will, Sustained By An Indominable Conviction, Is Much More Powerful Than Material Forces That Seem Insurmountable.

The Revolution Introduced Me To Art, And In Turn, Art Introduced Me To The Revolution!

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

Somebody Who Only Reads Newspapers And At Best Books Of Contemporary Authors Looks To Me Like An Extremely Near-sighted Person Who Scorns Eyeglasses. He Is Completely Dependent On The Prejudices And Fashions Of His Times, Since He Never Gets To See Or Hear Anything Else.

What A Sad Era When It Is Easier To Smash An Atom Than A Prejudice.

To Me It Is Enough To Wonder At The Secrets

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.

Assumptions Are Made And Most Assumptions Are Wrong.

I Am Of The Opinion That All The Finer Speculations In The Realm Of Science Spring From A Deep Religious Feeling, And That Without Such Feeling They Would Not Be Fruitful.

Knowledge Is Dead; The School, However, Serves The Living.

There Is Only One Road To Human Greatness: Through The School Of Hard Knocks.

I Don't Teach My Students, I Provide The Circumstances In Which They Can Learn.

Don't Let The Measurable Drive Out The Relevant

Education Is What Is Left After You've Forgotten Everything You've Learned.

The Enormous Mental Resilience, Without Which No Chess Player Can Exist, Was So Much Taken Up By Chess That He Could Never Free His Mind Of This Game

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.

I Know That It Is A Hopeless Undertaking To Debate About Fundamental Value Judgements. For Instance, If Someone Approves, As A Goal, The Extirpation Of The Human Race From The Earth, One Cannot Refute Such A Viewpoint On Rational Grounds. But If There Is Agreement On Certain Goals And Values, One Can Argue Rationally About The Means By Which These Objectives May Be Obtained.

Those People Have Seen 'something'. What It Is I Do Not Know And I Can Not Care To Know.

.. 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?

It Is My Belief That The Problem Of Bringing Peace To The World On A Supranational Basis Will Be Solved Only By Employing Gandhi's Method On A Larger Scale.

Where There Is Love, There Is No Imposition.

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

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

What Humanity Owes To Personalities Like Buddha, Moses, And Jesus Ranks For Me Higher Than All The Achievements Of The Enquiring And Constructive Mind.

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

[when Asked "dr. Einstein, Why Is It That When The Mind Of Man Has Stretched So Far As To Discover The Structure Of The Atom We Have Been Unable To Devise The Political Means To Keep The Atom From Destroying Us?"] That Is Simple, My Friend. It Is Because Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

The Effort To Strive For Truth Has To Precede All Other Efforts.

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

There Are Actually Two Approaches To Reside Your Daily Life. One Is As If Absolutely Nothing Is Really A Miracle. The Other Is As If Every Little Thing Is A Wonder

The Universe Is Difficult To Comprehend Because It Is Obvious.

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.

Man Usually Avoids Attributing Cleverness To Somebody Else Unless It Is An Enemy.

Our Separation From Each Other Is An Optical Illusion.

Scientists Believe That Every Occurrence, Including The Affairs Of Human Beings, Is Due To The Laws Of Nature. Therefore A Scientist Cannot Be Inclined To Believe That The Course Of Events Can Be Influenced By Prayer, That Is, By A Supernaturally Manifested Wish.

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

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

If You're Not Sure Why You're Doing Something, You Can Never Do Enough Of It. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

If You Want Your Children To Be Intelligent, Read Them Fairy Tales. If You Want Them To Be More Intelligent, Read Them More Fairy Tales.

The Most Precious Things In Life Are Not Those You Get For Money.

Precious Things

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

The Man Of Science Is A Poor Philosopher.

Logic Will Get You From A To B. Imagination Will Take You Everywhere.

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.

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

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

Only The [catholic] Church Stood Squarely Across The Path Of Hitler’s Campaign For Suppressing Truth. I Never Had Any Special Interest In The Church Before, But Now I Feel A Great Affection And Admiration Because The Church Alone Has Had The Courage And Persistence To Stand For Intellectual Truth And Moral Freedom. I Am Forced Thus To Confess That What I Once Despised I Now Praise Unreservedly.

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.

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

Live With Purpose. Don't Let People Or Things Around You Get You Down.

Live With Purpose

Life Is A Mystery, Not A Problem Waiting To Be Solved.

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

In Matters Of Truth And Justice, There Is No Difference Between Large And Small Problems, For Issues Concerning The Treatment Of People Are All The Same.

I Hate All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes With Patriotism.

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

Is It Not Better For A Man To Die For A Cause In Which He Believes, Such As Peace, Than To Suffer For A Cause In Which He Does Not Believe, Such As War?

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

Thought Is The Organizing Factor In Man, Intersected Between The Causal Primary Instincts And The Resulting Actions.

Each Act Is An Island In Time, To Be Judged On Its Own.

If I Could Remember The Names Of All These Particles, I'd Be A Botanist.

Discussion And Argument Are Essential Parts Of Science; The Greatest Talent Is The Ability To Strip A Theory Until The Simple Basic Idea Emerges With Clarity.

Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.

There Is, However, One Other Human Right Which Is Infrequently Mentioned But Which Seems To Be Destined To Become Very Important: This Is The Right, Or The Duty, Of The Individual To Abstain From Cooperating In Activities Which He Considers Wrong Or Pernicious.

Well, I Have Considered Myself To Be Very Fortunate In That I Have Been Able To Do Mostly Only That Which My Inner Self Told Me To Do... I Am Also Aware That I Do Receive Much Criticism From The Outside World For What I Do And Some People Actually Get Angry At Me. But This Does Not Really Touch Me Because I Feel That These People Do Not Live In He Same World As Do I.

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.

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

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

Science Is The Process Of Making Obviously Erroneous Ideas Less Obviously Erroneous.

Those Who Have The Privilege To Know Have The Duty To Act.

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.

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

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.

Why Does This Magnificent Applied Science Which Saves Work And Makes Life Easier Bring Us So Little Happiness? ... The Simple Answer Runs: 'because We Have Not Yet Learned To Make Sensible Use Of It.'

I See A Pattern, But My Imagination Cannot Picture The Maker Of That Pattern. I See A Clock, But I Cannot Envision The Clockmaker. The Human Mind Is Unable To Conceive Of The Four Dimensions, So How Can It Conceive Of A God, Before Whom A Thousand Years And A Thousand Dimensions Are As One?

The Release Of Atomic Power Has Changed Everything Except Our Way Of Thinking ... The Solution To This Problem Lies In The Heart Of Mankind. If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker. (1945)

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.

Politics Is A Pendulum Whose Swings Between Anarchy And Tyranny Are Fueled By Perennially Rejuvenated Illusions.

The Nuremberg Trial Of The German War Criminals Was Tacitly Based On The Recognition Of The Principle: Criminal Actions Cannot Be Excused If Committed On Government Orders; Conscience Supersedes The Authority Of The Law Of The State.

Unlimited Competition Leads To A Huge Waste Of Labor, And To That Crippling Of The Social Consciousness Of Individuals.

It Would Be My Greatest Sadness To See Zionists (jews) Do To Palestinian Arabs Much Of What Nazis Did To Jews.

Science Without Religion Is Lame, Religion Without Science Is Blind.

I Believe In Spinoza's God, Who Reveals Himself In The Lawful Harmony Of The World, Not In A God Who Concerns Himself With The Fate And The Doings Of Mankind... To Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

Every Day I Remind Myself That My Inner And Outer Life Are Based On The Labors Of Other Men, Living And Dead, And That I Must Exert Myself In Order To Give In The Same Measure As I Have Received And Am Still Receiving.

Common Sense Is That Layer Of Prejudices Which We Acquire Before We Are Sixteen.

You Have To Color Outside The Lines Once In A While If You Want To Make Your Life A Masterpiece.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today.

I Came- Though The Child Of Entirely Irreligious (jewish) Parents - To A Deep Religiousness, Which, However, Reached An Abrupt End At The Age Of Twelve.

There's Something To Be Said For Relatives...it Has To Be Said Because It's Unprintable!

The Ideals Which Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed To The Empty. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts — Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury—have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

Man Owes His Strength In The Struggle For Existence To The Fact That He Is A Social Animal.

There Is A Driving Force More Powerful Than Steam, Electricity And Nuclear Power: The Will.

The Contemplation Of This World Beckoned Like A Liberation

Do You Remember How Electrical Currents And 'unseen Waves' Were Laughed At? The Knowledge About Man Is Still In Its Infancy.

Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun.

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.

The Ordinary Adult Never Gives A Thought To Space-time Problems ... I, On The Contrary, Developed So Slowly That I Did Not Begin To Wonder About Space And Time Until I Was An Adult. I Then Delved More Deeply Into The Problem Than Any Other Adult Or Child Would Have Done.

In The Past It Never Occurred To Me That Every Casual Remark Of Mine Would Be Snatched Up And Recorded. Otherwise I Would Have Crept Further Into My Shell.

Enjoying The Joys Of Others And Suffering With Them-these Are The Best Guides For Man.

Student Is Not A Container You Have To Fill But A Torch You Have To Light Up.

The Gift Of Fantasy Has Meant More To Me Than My Talent For Absorbing Positive Knowledge.

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

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

A Scientist Is A Mimosa When He Himself Has Made A Mistake, And A Roaring Lion When He Discovers A Mistake Of Others.

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