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.

It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man’s image; so that there can be no church whose central...

I see my life in terms of music.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be...

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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