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Popular Quotes

Popular Quotes Through Time

Discover a treasured collection of popular quotes that remain relevant and continue to motivate and uplift.

It is hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that he would choose to play dice with the world ... is something I cannot believe for a single moment.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit ... we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious ... of being relegated to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together... perceptible phenomena... through systematic thought.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.