What you can’t imagine, you can’t discover.
I now see the necessity of a beginning.
When I’m judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
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Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.
Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.
Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system ‘at rest’ with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.
Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
The Universe is a friendly place.