Information is not knowledge.
If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence...
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmaticall...
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.