Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees’s dog.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.
It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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.
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
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.
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.
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.
Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.