“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”
“Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
“You'll just never know...so many emotions I choose not to show..”
“I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? Cosmic”
“one who has come to this country as a mature person may have a keen eye for everything peculiar and characteristic. I believe he should speak out freely on what he sees and feels, for by so doing he may perhaps prove himself useful.”
“As far as our propositions are certain, they do not say anything about reality, and as far as they do say anything about reality, they are not
certain"
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“imagination is more important than knowledge”
“The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.”
“In every true searcher of Nature
there is a kind of religious reverence”
“be the best loved who have contributed most to”
“Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits”
“the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed”
“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?”
“I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.”
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know”
“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”
“Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.”
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library”
“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis”
“Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.”
“People like you and me, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we are born.”
“If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others.”
“A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.”
“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.”
“True genius never says he know what he is doing”
“The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.”
“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.”
“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”
“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
“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.”
“Time has no independent existence apart from the
order of events by which we measure it.”
“Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.”
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
“There can be no positive result through negative attitude. Think positive. Live positive.”
“Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.”
“A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.”
“Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.”
“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.”
“For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.”
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
“Look to the stars and from them learn.”
“I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.”
“The greatest scientists are artists as well.”
“You can't blame gravity for falling in love”
“When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.”
“The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution”
There are many more I will keep editing if I find more