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From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.
Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.
It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.