A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
The important things are always simple.
A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
Once you stop learning, you start dying.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
There’s a genius in all of us.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
All that’s different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.