“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.”
“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”
“One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.”
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.”
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.”
“God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.”
“The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.”
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.”
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.”
“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
“To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.”
“One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.”
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
“And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.”
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.”