We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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.
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
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.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
