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It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
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When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
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Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
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Imagination is the highest form of research.
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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
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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.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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We must learn to see the world anew.