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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."
"Americanism: A mode of living which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined."
"Anyone that has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Einstein's Three Rules of Work: 1) Out of clutter find simplicity; 2) From discord find harmony; 3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"Every age has its beautiful moments."
"Everyone Is a Genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
"If I had an hour to save the world, I would use 50 minutes to define the problem."
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience."
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
"The past, present and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones."
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."
"The value of achiement lies in the achieving."
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."
"We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
"You do not really understand that which you cannot explain to your grandmother."
"Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"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."
"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. \ From discord, find Harmony. \ In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity."
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"The only source of knowledge is experience."
"More the knowledge, lesser the ego. Lesser the knowledge, more the ego."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."