 Imagination is more important than knowledge...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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
God doesn't play dice.
God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
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.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
(describing how radio works)... You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
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