| Quotes |
Topic |
| Conformity | It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. |
| Curiosity | The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. |
| Curiosity | The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. |
| Curiosity | The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. |
| Destiny | Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. |
| Difficulties | In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. |
| Education | It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. |
| Effort | The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. |
| Effort | Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. |
| Effort | We must find a way, or we will make one. |
| Endurance | I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. |
| Evil | It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. |
| Experience | The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. |
| Future | I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. |
| Future | I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. |
| Genius | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
| Goals | The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. |
| God | God is clever, but not dishonest. |
| Habits | 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. |
| Humanity | 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. |
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