The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

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. To the contrary, I believe it would be...

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

I don’t know the weapons that will be used in the Thirth World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

I don’t try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Why does this 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.

A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouthshut.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon...

The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research

The gravity is the first thing which you don’t think

Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our...

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence — these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars...

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a...

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter...

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at...

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion

Newton, forgive me.

If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our...

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule…

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.