Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.
No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as “laws of nature”.
I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.
The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them.
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man’s discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.