The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
I love Humanity but I hate humans.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.