The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
1. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
2. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
3. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
4. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
5. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
6.We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
7. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
8. 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.
9. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
10. You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
11. Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
12. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
13. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
14. The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
15. There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
16. Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
17. That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
18. The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
19. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
20. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
21. The environment is everything that isn't me.
22. The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. (Amen)
23. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
24. The only real valuable thing is intuition.
25. One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
26. Never go against yourself.
27. Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
28. 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. LOOOL
29. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
30. Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
31. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
32. Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
33. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
34. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
35. Information is not knowledge.
36. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
37. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
39. It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
40. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
41. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
42. I have just got a new theory of eternity.
43. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
44. I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
45. I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
46. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
47. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
49. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
50. I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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