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.

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

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.

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?

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really...

Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I want to know [God’s] thoughts, the rest are details.

Strange is our Situation Here Upon Earth.

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.