Intelligent Quotes

“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”

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

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively.”

“The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.”

“Every gift we accept is a tie. Sometimes, one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”

“I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”

“This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”

“As long as I have any choice, I will only stay in a country where political liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”

“The only rational way of educating is to be an example—if one can’t help it, a warning example.”

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”

“I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.”

“Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility of finding out causal relationships by systematic experiment (Renaissance).”

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

“He [the American] is friendly, self-confident, optimistic—and without envy.”

“One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its propositions are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.”

“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.”

“Intellectual individualism and scientific eras emerged simultaneously in history and have remained inseparable ever since.”

“Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.”