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1 A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
2 When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
3 True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
4 It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
5 The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
6 People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
7 Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
8 The faster you go, the shorter you are.
9 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.
10 There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
11 In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
12 Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
13 God does not play dice.
14 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
15 Force always attracts men of low morality.
16 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
17 We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
18 If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
19 The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
20 I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
21 Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
22 The only source of knowledge is experience.
23 I have just got a new theory of eternity.
24 A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
25 Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
26 Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
27 I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
28 Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
29 Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
30 Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
31 We cannot solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
32 Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
33 Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
34 The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
35 Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
36 Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
37 When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a read-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
38 Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
39 It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
40 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.
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