“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”

“There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.”

“The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.”

“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”

“I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.”

“The value of achievement lies in the achieving.”

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”

“Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

“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.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”

“One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.”

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”

“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”

“Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.”

“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”

“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”

“I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”

“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”

“I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”

“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”

“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.”

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”

“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”

“Force always attracts men of low morality.”

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”

“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”