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To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

Artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order - in short, of government.

What good is a reputation not put to good use.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

once you stop learning you start dying

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever ... ". It is clear from the original
that it is definitely not "I".

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

What we don't know is much more than what we know.

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

Peace comes through understanding

It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

Nothing happens until something moves.

For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel - to others! - but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

Things should be as simple as possible and no simpler.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

You can never be too smart to know everything.
Everyday you learn new things through events that transpire daily in your life

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn, for what purpose he knows not, though sometimes he thinks he feels it

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

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.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.