I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
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.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Information is not knowledge.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
fear, being good & hope
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
God does not play dice.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
art, experience & science
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.