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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
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.
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.
If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.