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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.
The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want
Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.