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

Information is not knowledge.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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

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.