It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
Toreador pants make your feet look big too.
The truth isn’t always a blinding light. Sometimes it’s a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates – and burns – just as surely.
In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.
What we don’t know is much more than what we know.
One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one’s own.
The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
The thing is, not to stop questioning.
For every action, there is a reaction.
Galileo is the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science.
It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism separately, but when they come together there is no hope.
The place of the expert is on tap not on top.
You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.
You imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field.
Nationalism, in my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
Show me a satisfied man, and I’ll show you a failure.