| Quotes |
Topic |
| Luxury | Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind. |
| Mathematicians | What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? |
| Mathematicians | A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. |
| Mathematicians | A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. |
| Miscellaneous | Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. |
| Miscellaneous | Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
| Miscellaneous | Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
| Miscellaneous | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
| Miscellaneous | Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. |
| Miscellaneous | I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details. |
| Mystery | The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed. |
| Mystery | The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. |
| Nationalism | Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. |
| Nature | Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. |
| Nature | Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. |
| Observation | It is the theory that decides what can be observed. |
| Patriotism | This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them! |
| Peace | 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. |
| Peace | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. |
| Physics | God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. |
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