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NAMA
: NELLY MAULIDA
NIM
: 2014083036
QUOTES
REASON
“In my experience, the best creative work Ketika kita melakukan suatu pekerjaan
is never done when one is unhappy.”
maka
lakukanlah
dengan
perasaan
senang. Karena jika kita tidak menyukai
apa yang kita lakukan maka hasilnya
tidak akan baik sesuai dengan perasaan
kita.
2.
“If you cant' explain it simply, you don't Menjelaskan suatu hal secara singkat
understand it well enough.”
saja kita tidak bisa berarti kita tidak
benar-benar memahami hal yang ingin
kita sampaikan.
3.
“When you change the way you look at Jika kita ingin melihat perubahan pada
things, the things you look at change.”
suatu hal maka rubahlah cara pandang
kita. Cara pandang kita menentukan apa
yang kita lihat, baik dari sis negatif atau
positif.
4.
“There can be no positive result through Hal postif akan melahirkan hal yang
negativeat titude. Think positive. Live postif. Kita tidak akan mendapatkan hal
positive.”
yang baik dengan melakukan hal yang
buruk. Jika ingin mendapatkan hal yang
baiksaja maka hiduplah dengan baik.
Berfikir
positif
akan
menghasilkan
perilaku dan hasil yang positif.
5.
“Just
because
you
don't
believe
something doesn't mean it isn't true.”
in Ketika kita tidak mempercayai sesuatu
hal bukan berarti hal itu tidak benar
terkadang dalam menjalani kehidupan
ada hal-hal yang tidak bisa kita percaya
tetapi hal itu nyata adanya.
6.
“If you always do what you always did, Kalau ingin mendapatkan hal yang lebih
you will always get what you always got.”
maka bertindaklah dengan lebih. Jika
tidak maka kita akan mendapatkan hal
yang sama setiap harinya.
7.
“I am thankful to all those who said NO to Menjadi diri sendiri akan lebih baik.
me. It's because of them, I did it myself”
Berusaha menjadi pribadi yang lebih
baik sangat dibutuhkan terkadang untuk
mendapatkannya kita harus mendapat
tolakan dari orang lain.
8.
“live as if you were to die tommorow, Hiduplah seperti kita meninggal besok.
dream as if you were to live forever”
Sehingga kita bisa bertingkah laku yang
baik. Bisa menjaga diri dari hal yang
tidak baik. Karena ketika seseorang ingat
akan kematiannya maka dia akan berbuat
hal yang baik saja. Tetapi ketika kita
ingin
mencapai
sesuatu
maka
bermimpilah seakan- akan kita hidup
untuk
selamanya
karena
itu
akan
membuat kita semakin termotivasi untuk
mengejar mimpi- mimpi kita.
9
“Try not to become a person of success, but Menjadi orang sukses keinginan setiap
rather try to become a person of value.”
orang tetapi akan lebih baik jika kita
menjadi
pribadi
yang
bernilai
dan
berkualitas.
10.
“Did you know: The only source of Dalam menjalani kehidupan pastinya
knowledge is experience”
kita banyak mengalami manis pahitnya
pengalaman hidup. Tetapi ketahuilah
bahwa pengalaman itu adalah sumber
pengetahuan. Pengalaman adalah guru
yang terbaik.
ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES
1. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
universe.”
2. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as though everything is a miracle.”
3. “In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.”
4. “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
5. “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
6. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be
more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
7. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
8. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
9. “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
10.
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president
of the university.”
11.
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a
red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
12.
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
13.
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
14.
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
15.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
16.
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
17.
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
18.
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the
kiss the attention it deserves.”
19.
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a
sign?”
20.
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
21.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to
not stop questioning.”
22.
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
23.
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and
space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the
rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
24.
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something,
wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
25.
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I
live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
26.
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
27.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed
without changing our thinking.”
28.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will
be fought with sticks and stones.”
29.
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
30.
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
31.
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
32.
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental
emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
33.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
34.
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
35.
“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.”
36.
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
37.
“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”
38.
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
39.
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
40.
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
41.
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is
impossible to stand again.”
42.
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
43.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
44.
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to
remain children all our lives.”
45.
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important
matters”
46.
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with
the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
47.
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
48.
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
49.
“There can be no positive result through negativeattitude. Think positive. Live
positive.”
50.
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
51. “If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
52. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing.”
53. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The
woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
54. “Love is a better master than duty.”
55. “I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
56. “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense;
it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of
wave pressure.”
“Time is an illusion.”
57. “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
58. “Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
59. “I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
60. “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
61. “We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear
bright until you hear them speak.”
62. “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
63. “Nothing happens until something moves.”
64. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
65. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
66. “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
67. “A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.”
68. “God does not play dice with the universe.”
69. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
70. “Imagination is the highest form of research.”
71. “However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
72. “I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
73. “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.”
74. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
75. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
76. “What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
77. “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
78. “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
79. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
80. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
81. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
82. “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.”
83. “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still
greater.”
84. “Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final
exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
85. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
86. “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
87. “If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we
are a sorry lot indeed.”
88. “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
own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are
connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer
and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how
earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
89. “I love Humanity but I hate humans”
90. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
91. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
92. “A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
93. “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem
and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
94. “I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose
purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human
frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although
feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
95. “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be
Buddhism.”
96. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now
know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever
will be to know and understand.”
97. “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
98. “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the
prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such
opinions."
99. “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
100. “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
101. “I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not
KNOW that I am.”
102. “the solution is simple, God is answering.”
103. “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as
if there were none.”
104. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
105. “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.”
106. “I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
107. “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
108. “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality,
is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
109. “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the
human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
110. “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
111. “When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that
the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
112. “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.”
113. “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
114. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
115. “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors
looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is
completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to
see or hear anything else.”
116. “Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that
lack of civilization in high boots”
117. “The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the
Revolution!”
118. “We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles
and well-being our own happiness depends.”
119. “The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness,
beauty, and truth.”
120. “Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer
simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a
Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a
parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We
are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the
ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have
written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages
in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books,
a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems
to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.
We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the
laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the
constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his
contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because
he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two
separate things.”
121. “God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
122. “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 how subtle, can (for me) change
this.”
123. “He who joyfully marches to music 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. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at
command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how
despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an
action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of
murder.”
124. “Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
125. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
126. “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? ”
127. “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
128. “The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
129. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
130. “Information is not knowledge.”
131. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to
another.”
132. “Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been
contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone,
best for both the body and the mind.”
133. “Dancers are the athletes of God.”
134. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.”
135. “Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
136. “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”
137. “the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
138. “Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
139. “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations
are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical
existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
140. “Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we
have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings,
vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by
an invisible piper.”
141. “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside
from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and
ruin without fail.”
142. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than
anyone else.”
143.
“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can
learn.”
144. “I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
145. “I see my life in terms of music.”
146. “Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
147. “The only source of knowledge is experience.”
148. “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
149. “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
150. “Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live
merry.”
151. “Force always attracts men of low morality.”
152. “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.”
153. “At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
154. “It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I
cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere...
Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's
ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and
needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be
restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
155. “Play is the highest form of research.”
156. “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
157. “An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
158. “Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't
know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard
reference book?”
159. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to
wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight
into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To
know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom
and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most
primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
160. “If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German
and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France
will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
161. “Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”
162. “We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the
rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.”
163. “My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted
oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and
human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country,
my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of
all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
164. “A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
165. “Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ”
166. “What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the
World.”
167. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be
happy?”
168. “The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
169. “Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not
as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know
the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and
to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
170. “It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
171. “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can
prove me wrong.”
172. “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more
ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the
wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
173. “I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of
the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
174. “Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
175. “We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are
covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that
someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not
understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in
the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only
dimly suspects.”
176. “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.”
177. “All generalizations are false, including this one.”
178. “One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.”
179. Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
180. “He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand
rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own
hearts.”
181. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it
... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
182. “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can
labor in freedom.”
183. “How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of
good will.”
184. “Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
185. “Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge”
186. “The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the
believer.”
187. “It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible
nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
188. “It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition.
My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
189. “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always
got.”
190.
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on
Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
191. “It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of
murder.”
192. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
193. “Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”
194. “Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not
knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily
life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
195. “Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
196. “Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”
197. “Older men start wars, but younger men fight them. ”
198. “Truth is what stands the test of experience. ”
199. “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.”
200. “To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them.
One must knock them down alone.”
201. “What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very
imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a
genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
202.
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large
ones either.”
203. “We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.”
204. “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 starting points and its rich environment. But the
point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller
and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our
adventurous way up.”
205. “A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the
multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and
creativity.”
206. “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means
nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past,
present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
207. “I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in
our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our
cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
208. “My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder
of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based
on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
209. “To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
210. “Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of
difficulty lies opportunity.”
211. “We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful
muscles, but no personality. ”
212. “I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is
simple, then God is answering.”
213. “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your
grandmother.”
214. “A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
215. “Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
216. “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in
consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't
know how or why.”
217. “There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose
not to see!!”
218. “One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's
own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life
into the world of objective perception and thought.”
219. “Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can
you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as
first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that
special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
220. “If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.”
221. “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our
inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can
give beauty and dignity to life. ”
222. “The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ...
the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should
have become a watchmaker. (1945)”
“Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.”
223. “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
224. “Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious
children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”
“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”
225. “I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world,
not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...
to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”
226. “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only
means.”
227. “Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
228. “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
229. “I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!”
230. “Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it
myself any more.”
231. “The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits
of thinking..”
232. “I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s
saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real
inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s
hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization
mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from
taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in
part, gives humour its due.”
233. “Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
234. “I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”
235. “As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.”
236. “E=mc2”
“Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut”
“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be
merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
237.
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
238. “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
239. “I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I
can use them to win arguments”
240. “Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.”
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
241. “For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
242. “I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through
my rational mind.”
243. “Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The
mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to
conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and
honestly.”
244. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we
need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
245. “It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is
being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied
this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then
it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can
reveal it.”
246. “The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to
me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of
death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ”
247. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
248. “I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.”
249. “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them
without doing anything”
250. “I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and
dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
251. “I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can
read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.”
252. “It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of
possibility.”
253. “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating
progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific
research.”
254. “We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”
255. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
256. “It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what
he takes out of it.”
257. “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 enforced”
258. “your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl
for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
259. “If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
260. “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy,
whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no
matter.”
261. “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 angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable
Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)”
262. I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.”
263. “On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may
well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked
upon this Earth.”
264. “As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness
surrounding it.”
265. “The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded
person.”
266. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
267. “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with
which we created them.”
268. “The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to
defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are
the constitutional rights secure.”
269. “Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
270. “Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of
other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same
measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
271. “There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never
prove how it got there.”
272. “The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal
God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should
be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and
spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.”
273. “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four
years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no
more man.”
274. “Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In
the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
275. “I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My
God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but
by immutable laws.”
276. “The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health
or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”
277. “Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”
278. “Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!”
279. “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, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.”
280. “In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a
sheep.”
281. “Failure is success in progress”
282. “Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
283. “A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and
social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way
if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
284. “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for
someone who's dead.”
285. “But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other
people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is
wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are
bound by the ties of sympathy.”
286. “If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck”
287. “The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of
the mind to think”
288. “I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.”
289. “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to
receive.”
290. “Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me”
291. Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”
292. “To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our
mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a
feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.”
293. “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 teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the
heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious
feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes
also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza
are closely akin to one another.”
294. “The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or
hostile universe.”
295. “People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
296. “One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one
liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the
final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me
for an entire year.”
297. “Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”
298. “Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the
consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first,
indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.”
299. “Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”
300. “The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and
avoid dogma and theology.”
301. “Once a day allow yourself the freedom to dream...”
302. “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
303. “Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count,
really count.”
304. “I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an
exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”
305. “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
306. “That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains
something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything
that we can comprehend is my religion.”
307. “Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to
think.”
308. “The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political
state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and
the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.”
309. “If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”
310. “The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.”
311. “This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I
abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by
the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!”
312. “One picture is worth a thousand words”
313. “A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the
months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a
photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember
them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph
can be kind.”
314. “Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
315. “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
316. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
317. “It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also
trees and plants.”
318. “It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure
unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”
319. “Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history.
Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. ”
320. “When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too
large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which
case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.”
321. “My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.”
322. “What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To
know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense,
then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as
meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.”
323. “Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom
of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what
relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe
and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act
of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch
kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he
cannot will what he wills).”
324. “The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive
knowledge.”
325. “I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical
basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time
have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and
Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with
the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors,
life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions,
outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.”
326. “Necessity is the mother of all invention.”
327. “I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about
history, you would know that is so--what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I
do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the
average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution.
This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life--solving problems--and the harder they are,
the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more
patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you
understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted
but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem.”
328. “We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we
are born.”
329. “Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not
knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily
life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for
the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.
Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of
people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in
return as much as I have received and am still receiving.”
330. “Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune,
intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
331. “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.”
332. “Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”
333. “People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious
children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
334. “The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains
which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge
against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the
spheres.”
335. “As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
336. “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.”
337. “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.”
338. “Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are
subordinate.”
339. “So long as there are men, there will be wars.”
340. “How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it
can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most
important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who
are receptive to it.”
341. “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy
curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
342. “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them.”
343. “It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new
ideas.”
344. “It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it,
especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The
individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and
marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He
looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe
as a single significant whole.”
345. “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
346. “Am I, or the others crazy?”
347. “I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for
scientific research.”
348. “That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which
is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”
349. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
universe.”
350. “As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.”
351. The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is
not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”
352. “The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of
every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the
supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”
353. “everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.........”
354. “If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt
for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been
enough.”
355. “No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”
356. “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. ”
357. “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
358. “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 little
decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason
for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there
hasn’t been one big decision.”
359. “I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this
country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot
repair in the balance of my lifetime.”
360. “Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced
that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man,
and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”
361. “I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic
bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men
capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could
be restored.”
362. “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
possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with
the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.”
363. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special
talent. I am only passionately curious.”
364. “the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the
harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared
with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant
reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he
succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question
closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.”
365. “To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.”
366. “Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”
367. “The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the
individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.”
368. “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.”
369. “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his
eyes are closed.”
370. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to
be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.When I examine myself and my methods
of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than
any talent for abstract, positive thinking”
371. “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our
inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can
give beauty and dignity to life.
372. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost
task of education.
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any
authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the
foundation of sound judgment and action.”
373.
“Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till
then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the
Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty”
374. “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
375. “I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving
force behind scientific research.”
376. “Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority
over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.”
377. “How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack selfconfidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no
life.
378. “Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost
feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential
babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of
soul...?”
379. “We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that
we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.”
380. “If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.”
381. “Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous
and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely
thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but
her choice products are few.
382. We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always
thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is
also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular
generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark
to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times.”
383. “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.”
" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.”
384. “Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God.”
385. “The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The
person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”
386. “Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”
387. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
388. “It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is
likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of
ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of
science.”
389. “Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.”
390. “The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered
development of the individual.”
391. “Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
392. “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that,
behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle,
intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can
comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.”
393. “I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of
facts.”
394. “Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its
practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who,
surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide
through the world and through the centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to similar
ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the
strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious
feeling that gives a man such strength. A contemporary has said, not unjustly, that in this
materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious
people.”
395. “Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order
—in short, of government.”
396. “The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.”
397. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...It takes a touch of
genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
398. “Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?”
399. “There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.”
400. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created
them.”
401. “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.”
402. “It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”
403. “The environment is everything that isn't me.”
404. “I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to”
405. “Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only
seeing how they might be different.”
406. “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes
by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!”
407. “To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to
gaze at the world through a car window.”
408. “Non possiamo risolvere i problemi con lo stesso tipo di pensiero che abbiamo usato
quando li abbiamo creati.”
409. “A problem can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.”
410. I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend
my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a
loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”
411. “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
412. “A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new”
413. “I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average
person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.”
414. “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.”
415. “Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain
value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”
416. “Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to
life.”
417. “There is one questions that drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?”
418. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
419. “Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.”
420. “You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn
around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.”
421. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing. 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 every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
422. “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
423. “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 that I belong to it.”
424. “Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science.
425. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
426. “In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is
experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable
than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.”
427. “From discord, find Harmony.”
428. “Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.”
429. “Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that
everything in life is relative.”
430. “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
431. “I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.”
432. “Never lose a holy curiosity.”
433. “Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and
well-being our own happiness depends.”
434. “Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly
lit by a flickering consciousness.”
435. “If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. ”
436. “Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of
God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally highminded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third
stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found
in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this
feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic
conception of God corresponding to it.”
437. “A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.”
438. “The important thing is never to stop questioning.”
439. is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to
suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?”
440. “More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above
everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the
axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
441. “It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his
convictions in political affairs.”
442. “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.”
443. “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow,
inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.”
444.
“I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them, I did it
myself”
445. “The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the
mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art
and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least
blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our
mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a
feeble reflection, this is religiousness.
In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt
humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is.”
446. “The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent
one.”
447. “A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An
experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”
448. “There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections.
At such moments, we seeourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes
fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is
elusive.
449. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is
only BEING.”
450. “I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without
religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
451. “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.”
452. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them.”
453. “This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a
philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)”
454. “The state was made for man, not man for state.”
455. “True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and
righteousness.”
456. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we
created them.”
457. “One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are
much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are
for eternity.”
458.
“Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings
and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our
inspection and thinking”
459. “Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by
our imaginations.”
460. “The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the
germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer
capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is
impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most
radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties – this
knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense,
and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.”
461. “Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exist for other people”
462. “live as if you were to die tommorow, dream as if you were to live forever”
463. “True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
464. “when u knw ur limits u go byond them”
465. “The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.”
466. “Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.”
467. “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
468. “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.”
469. “Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an
equation is something for eternity.”
470. “Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.”
471. “During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created
gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to
determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the
disposition of these gods in his own favor by means of magic and prayer. The idea of God
in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old concept of the gods. Its
anthropomorphic character is shown, for instance, by the fact that men appeal to the
Divine Being in prayers and plead for the fulfillment of their wishes. Nobody, certainly,
will deny that the idea of the existence of an omnipotent, just, and omnibeneficent
personal God is able to accord man solace, help, and guidance; also, by virtue of its
simplicity it is accessible to the most undeveloped mind. But, on the other hand, there are
decisive weaknesses attached to this idea in itself, which have been painfully felt since
the beginning of history. That is, if this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence,
including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and
aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for
their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and
rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be
combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?
472. “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my
share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
473. “It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.”
474. “artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity”
475. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
476. “In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music
requires a thought homogeneous.”
477. “If you cant' explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
478. “People like us, who believe in Physics, know that the distinction between
past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
479. “there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a
pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who
do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the
individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous
order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual
destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full
of significance. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier
levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The
cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's
magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been
distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God
made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are
based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely
among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious
experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as
saints".”
480. “We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are
covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that
someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not
understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the
arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only
dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest
and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain
laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the
mysterious force that sways the constellations.”
481. “In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by just a little. That
doesn't mean anything. For us convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present,
and future is only an illusion, albeit a persistent one”
482.
“The theory must not contradict empirical facts,”
483. “The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.”
484. “I was barked at by numerous dogs who are earning their food guarding ignorance
and superstition for the benefit of those who profit from it. Then there are the fanatical
atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics
and comes from the same source. They are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of
their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in
their grudge against the traditional "opium of the people"—cannot bear the music of the
spheres. The Wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it
by the standards of human morals and human aims.”
485. “I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology
as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even
professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but
has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives
that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists
are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the
mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.”
486. “I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of
the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an
individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism,
cherish such thoughts.”
487.
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of
value.”
488. “Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are
recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until
then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as
civilized.”
489. “I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.”
490. “The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.”
491. “When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”
492. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It
is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
493. “A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.”
494. “I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of
music”
495. “Imagination is everything”
496. Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience”
497. “Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their
convictions.”
498.
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not
as a hard duty.”
499. “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 how subtle can (for me) change
this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and
have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other
religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.”
500. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”