The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
History • Power • Success
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Character • Intellect • Personal Development
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Imagination • Innovation • Progress
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Education • Knowledge • Learning
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Energy • Science • Technology
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Existence • Purpose • Time
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Knowledge • Science
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Education • Love • Philosophy
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Beauty • Joy • Nature
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Education • Experience • Knowledge
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Accident • Death • Fear
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
Love • Relationships
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Achievements • Adversity • Inspiration
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Science
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Contentment • Happiness • Minimalism
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Divine • Fate • Mystery
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.
Creativity • Intellect • Productivity
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Confusion • Health • Perception
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
Ethics • Morality • Popularity
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Communication • Equality • Respect
