Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions
referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an
unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order
to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily
on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no
control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a
mysterious tune, intoned in the distance.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot
necessarily be counted.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors
of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am
still receiving.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social
ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment
and hope of reward after death.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce
in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware
how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most
precious thing we have.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within
us.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded
the individual.
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle
of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized
political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main
sources of information.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and
a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius
- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the
attention it deserves.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones
either.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our
instincts.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors.
Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
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.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of
minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh
and blood.
God always takes the simplest way.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
God does not play dice.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
