X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

You can’t solve a problem on the same level you created it.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough

Ego=1/Knowledge” More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

The question hat drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind...

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it,...

Don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

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.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

We found there were people doing acupuncture, meditation, naturopathy and other forms of alternative or complementary medicine … but it was being done in a disorganized way,

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the...

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Remember your humanity and forget the rest

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

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