Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Morality is of the highest importance
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Information is not knowledge.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
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.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
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.
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
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.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
Force always attracts men of low morality.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
It is surprising how closely ideas of great minds rhyme. Albert Einstein has been a major inspiration for my dad and the more I read the above quotes, the more I understand why.
The collected quotes are more or less all those found here. This list is quite exhaustive, but I’m sure I will find more.
Gordon Schücker 