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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the true source of art, science, and friendship.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the colors of patriotism.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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