The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
One cannot alter a condition with the same mindset that created it in the first place.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can’t reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who’s not here and start worrying about who is.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Always do what’s right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.