The most

incomprehensible
thing about the
world is that it is
comprehensible.
• "When you sit with a nice girl for
two hours, it seems like two
minutes. When you sit on a hot
stove for two minutes, it seems
like two hours that's relativity."
-- Albert Einstein
"Gravity cannot be held responsible for
people falling in love."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer
to reality, they are not certain; as far as
they are certain, they do not refer to
reality."
magination is more important than knowledge
Sometimes one pays most for the things
one gets for nothing
"If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would
it?”
If A equals success, then the formula is
A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is
keep your mouth shut.
The hardest thing in the world to
understand is the income tax.
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change
the facts."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough."
"Only two things are infinite, the
universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."
"The release of atomic energy has not
created a new problem. It has merely
made more urgent the necessity of
solving an existing one."
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre
minds...
It is a scale of proportions which
makes the bad difficult and the
good easy.
Never do anything against
conscience even if the state
demands it.
A person starts to live when he
can live outside himself.
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Everything should be made as
simple as possible, but not
simpler.
Common sense is the collection of
prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It
can only be achieved by
understanding.
 To raise new questions, new
possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative
imagination and marks real advance in
science.
Few are those who see with their own
eyes and feel with their own hearts
Insanity: doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting
different results.
Do not worry about your problems
with mathematics, I assure you mine
are far greater
Nothing will benefit human health
and increase the chances for
survival of life on Earth as much as
the evolution to a vegetarian diet
A human being is a part of a whole,
called by us universe, a part limited in
time and space. He experiences
himself, his thoughts and feelings as
something separated from the rest ... a
kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness.”
As our circle of knowledge expands,
so does the circumference of
darkness surrounding it.
It has become appallingly obvious
that our technology has exceeded
our humanity.
The mass of a body is a measure
of its energy content.
Generations to come, it may be, will
scarcely believe that such a one as
this ever in flesh and blood walked
upon this earth. (In reference to the
death
 Without deep reflection one
knows from daily life that one
exists for other people.
A man should look for what is, and
not for what he thinks should be.”
It is almost a miracle that modern
teaching methods have not yet
entirely strangled the holy curiousity
of inquiry; for what this delicate little
plant needs more than anything,
besides stimulation, is freedom
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.
Measured objectively, what a man can
wrest from Truth by passionate striving
is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving
frees us from the bonds of the self and
makes us comrades of those who are
the best and the greatest.
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.
Few are those who see with their own
eyes and feel with their own hearts.