"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be"
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed"
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive"
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone"
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would 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 have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else"
"There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case"
"If you never failed, you never tried anything new"
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax"
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms"
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"
"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character"
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given"
"The only real valuable thing is intuition"
"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"
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness"
"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"
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder"
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science"
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it"
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking"
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge"
"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature"
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right"
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us"
"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind"
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge"
"I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world"
"God does not play dice"
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity"
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive"
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong"
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it"
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible"
