The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

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