The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.
Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained – and that’s our present universe.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.