Physicist

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Be a voice not an echo.

But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Learn from yesterday, live for today.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

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.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.