I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

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