Intelligent Quotes

“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something.”

“Knowledge is of no real value if all you can tell me is what happened yesterday. It is necessary to tell what will happen tomorrow.”

“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”

“I think that to keep trying new solutions is the way to do everything.”

“We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature’s phenomena will agree or they’ll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven’t tried to be very careful in this kind of work.”

“Peace of mind is the most important prerequisite for creative work.”

“The only way to have real success in science, the field I’m familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.”

“There is no sense in calculating the probability or the chance that something happens after it happens.”

“Every scientific law, every scientific principle, every statement of the results of an observation is some kind of a summary which leaves out details.”

“The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.”

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

“Observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.”

“By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.”

“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

“It is interesting that human relationships, if there is an independent way of judging truth, can become unargumentative.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.”

“Since then I never pay any attention to anything by experts. I calculate everything myself.”

“I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.”

“Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could he educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.”

“The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be.”

“It was a reaction I learned from my father: have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look at what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, Is it reasonable?”

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”