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It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.
The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery