Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

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.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

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.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.