"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity"
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious"
"I have just got a new theory of eternity"
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed"
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil"
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it"
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty"
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind"
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war"
"God always takes the simplest way"
"Force always attracts men of low morality"
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions"
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts"
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted"
"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler"
"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"
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater"
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age"
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations"
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality"
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue"
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either"
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves"
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction"
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools"
"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser"
"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions"
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves"
"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground"
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe"
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal"
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives"
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder"
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education"
"The only source of knowledge is experience"
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once"
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead"
"The faster you go, the shorter you are"
"The environment is everything that isn't me"
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion"
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits"
