Popular Quotes Through Time

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

God always takes the simplest way.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.