Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

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