Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket – to hold all of mu mistakes.
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
There is nothing known as “Perfect”. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!
Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
It is humankind’s duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.
Failing isn’t bad when you learn what not to do.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.