It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Information is not knowledge.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.