Daily Digest

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

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

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“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.”

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”

“Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

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

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”