The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.
Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws whi...
I see my life in terms of music.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation,...
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believ...
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the worl...