Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Never lose a holy curiosity.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

How do I work? I grope.

A storm broke loose in my mind.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

God always takes the simplest way.

Fantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

God does not play dice with the universe.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Nothing is ever yours until you give it away.

Life is a mystery, not a problem to be solved.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

It is theory that decides what can be observed.

When all think alike, no one thinks very much.

He physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.