“The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.”
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.”
“One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.”
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
“And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
“I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.”
“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
“This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.”
“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
“Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.”
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
“The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.”
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet”
“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.”
“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.”
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”