Popular Quotes Through Time

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

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.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.