Unlock the Wisdom Vault
- “There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
- “Try not to become a man of success but rather become a man of value.”
- “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious; it is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
- “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
- “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
- “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
- “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
- “Anyone who has ever made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
- “A question that drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
- “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
- “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
- “The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
- “We all know that light travels faster than sound, that’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
- “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
- “I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
- “Everything must be made as simple as possible but not simpler.”
- “I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.”
- “Love is a better master than duty.”
- “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
- “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
- “What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.”
- “It is not that I am so smart, but I stay with the questions much longer.”
- “The pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
- “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing, that is something.”
- “Wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
- “You never fail until you stop trying.”
- “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world.”
- “A clever person solves a problem; a wise person avoids it.”
- “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.”
- “Genius is one percent talent and 99 hard work.”
- “Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
- “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
- “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play, and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
- “Time is an illusion; imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
- “If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
- “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up, but when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.”
- “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
- “The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
- “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
- “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.”
- “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.”
- “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
- “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
- “I believe in institutions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right; I do not know that I am a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
- “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
- “Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.”
- “I would teach peace rather than war; I would inculcate love rather than hate.”
- “I have no special talent; I am only passionately curious.”
- “One thing I have learned in a long life is that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike, and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
- “My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to any obligation and dependence I did not regard as absolutely necessary.”
- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.”
- “If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
- “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existence.”