Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.