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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today
We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.
It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.
It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.
Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.