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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.
After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.