"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"People fall in love not because of gravity."
"I want to know what God thinks; The rest are details. "
"The most difficult thing to understand in the world is income tax."
"Reality is only an illusion, although it is a very lasting illusion."
"The only thing that really matters is intuition."
"When a person can live outside himself, he begins to live."
"I'm sure he (God) doesn't play dice."
"God is subtle, but he has no malice."
"Weaknesses in attitude will become weaknesses in character."
"I never think about the future. It came quickly. "
"The eternal mystery of the world lies in its understandability."
"Sometimes a person pays the highest price for something he gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is untenable. Religion without science is blind. "
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits are often strongly opposed by the weak-willed."
"Everything should be as simple as possible, but it can't be simpler."
"Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen."
"If one doesn't need science to make a living, science is a beautiful thing."
"The secret of creativity lies in knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that hinders my study is my education."
"God doesn't care about our math difficulties. He integrates according to experience. "
"The whole science is just the refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of pathological criminals."
"Peace cannot be maintained by force. It can only be achieved through understanding. "
"The most incomprehensible thing in the world is that it is understandable."
"We can't solve problems with the same thinking we used when creating problems."
"Education is what remains after a person forgets everything he learned in school."
"It is important not to stop asking questions. Curiosity has its reasons. "
"Don't worry about your difficulties in math. I can assure you that mine is bigger. "
"The equation is more important to me because politics is present, but the equation is eternal."
"If A is a successful person in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play and z is tight-lipped. "
"There are two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I am not sure about the universe. "
"As far as mathematical laws involve reality, they are uncertain, and as far as they are certain, they do not involve reality."
"Anyone who wants to flaunt himself as a judge of truth and knowledge will be humiliated by the ridicule of the gods."
"I don't know what weapons will be used in World War III, but sticks and stones will be used in World War IV."
"In order to be a perfect member of the flock, you must be a sheep first."
"The fear of death is the most unreasonable of all fears, because there is no risk of accidents for a dead person."
"Too many people regard Americans as dollar chasers. This is cruel slander, even if the Americans themselves reiterate it without thinking. "
"Commanding heroism, senseless violence and all the disgusting nonsense in the name of patriotism-how strongly I hate them!"
"no, this trick won't work ... how on earth can you explain such an important biological phenomenon as first love with chemistry and physics?"
"My religious belief contains a humble worship of the infinite spirit of Excellence, which shows itself in the subtleties that our fragile hearts can perceive."
"Yes, we must allocate our time like this, between our politics and our equations. But for me, our equation is more important, because politics is only the current concern. A mathematical equation will always hold. "
"The release of atomic energy has changed everything except our way of thinking ... The solution to this problem lies in the human heart. If I knew, I should be a watchmaker. "
"The great spirit will always be strongly opposed by mediocrity. The latter can't understand when a person doesn't submit a dictionary bias here without thinking, but uses his wisdom honestly and bravely. "
"The best thing we can experience is mysterious. It is the source of all real art and all science. A stranger to this emotion, a man who can no longer stop and stand with rapt attention in surprise and awe, is like death: his eyes are closed. "
"A person's moral behavior should be effectively based on sympathy, education and social relations; No religious basis is needed. If a person has to be bound by the fear of punishment and the hope of reward after death, he will not live well. "
"The deeper the evolution of human spirit, the more convinced I am that the road to true religious belief is not through fear of life, fear of death and blind belief, but through the pursuit of rational knowledge."
"Now he left this strange world a little earlier than me. This is meaningless. People who believe in physics like us know that the difference between the past, the present and the future is just an illusion of stubbornness. "
"You see, the telegraph line is a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in new york, and his head meows in LA. Do you understand this? Radio works in exactly the same way: you send signals here and they receive them there. The only difference is that there are no cats. "
"A person has to cram all these things into his mind to prepare for the exam, whether he likes it or not. This kind of coercion has had such a deterrent effect on me that after I passed the final exam, I found that the consideration of any scientific problem disgusted me for a whole year. "
"... one of the strongest motives leading people to art and science is to escape from the pain, roughness and hopelessness of daily life and the bondage of their ever-changing desires. Gentle people are eager to escape from personal life and enter the world of objective perception and thinking. "
"People who happily follow the music of ordinary people have won my contempt. He was wrongly given a big head, because the spinal cord must be enough for him. This is a disgrace to civilization and should be eliminated immediately. How I hate all this, how despicable and disgraceful the war is; I would rather be torn to pieces than take part in such a despicable act. I am convinced that killing in the cloak of war is just a murder. "
"Man is a part of what we call the universe as a whole, a part with limited time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from other things ... a visual illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a kind of prison for us, limiting us to personal desires and feelings for a few closest people. Our task must be to liberate ourselves from this prison, expand our circle of compassion and embrace all living things and the whole beautiful nature. "
"Not everything that is valuable can be calculated, and not everything that can be calculated is valuable." (The sign hanging in Einstein's Princeton office)
Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (which can be distributed with this statement for free)
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