Popular Quotes Through Time

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Information is not knowledge.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

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.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I want to know all God's thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.