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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.
If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views
My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...
If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.
I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.