“primitive religions are based entirely on fear”

“Per perdere la testa, bisogna averne una...”

“life is like ridding bicycle . to keep your balance you must keep moving”

“It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.”

“Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself.”

“I didn't kill that man and if you say I did I'll deny everything.”

“For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.”

“Never argue with an artist.”

“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza 's Amor Dei Intellectualis , they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.”

“Evil is the absence of God.”

“You can never be too smart to know everything.”

“Things should be as simple as possible and no simpler.”

“The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.”

“satu-satunya yang pasti adalah ketidakpastian”

“Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.”

“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.”

“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”

“Hanya ada dua cara menjalani kehidupan kita.”

“Each of us is here for a brief sojourn, for what purpose he knows not, though sometimes he thinks he feels it”

“Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.”

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive”

“It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine—each was discovered by one man.”

“True genius never says he know what he is doing”

“The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.”

“The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.”

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.”

“The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution”

“Schopenhauer’s saying, that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,” has been an inspiration to me since my”

“One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell .”

“Now he has again preceded me a little in parting from this strange world. This has no importance. For people like us who believe in physics, the separation between past, present and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion.”

“My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”

“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”

“In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.”

“In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.”

“If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

“I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.”

“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.”

“I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.”

“For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.”

“Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.”

“Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems”

“A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.”

“A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.”

“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything than can be counted counts.”

“There can be no positive”

“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.”

“I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”

“To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition”

“To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.”

“To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one’s opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.”