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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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.
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.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.