Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
I’m no more intelligent than the next guy. I’m just more curious.
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.
I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.
My mind is my laboratory.
What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space are models for thinking.
The Devil craps on the big pile.
The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.
Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
One lives one’s life under constant tension, until it’s time to go for good.
Knowledge and ego are directly related. The less knowledge, the greater the ego.
If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.