Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.
Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.
Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.
Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.
The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God, but on the heart of the individual.
The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.
Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
Philosophy is empty if it isn’t based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up.
What is significant in one’s own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!