It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking cou...
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Time is an illusion.
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.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat...
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there no more valuable work in his specialty? I hear many of my colleagues saying, and I sen...
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if manki...