I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you’ve given me the nomination I feel that I am one.
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
The gravity is the first thing which you don’t think.
The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
The world is a dangerous place to live.
Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.
If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile.
The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
The last thing to collapse is the surface.
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking.
Fantasie is belangrijker dan kennis, want kennis is begrensd.
There will come a point in everyone’s life, however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.
Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.