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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - [Imagination] When the solution is simple, God is answering. - [Solutions] 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. - on relativity [Physics] When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. - [Physics] Where there is love there is no question. - [Love] While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool. - [Slavery] Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - [Care] Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - [Judges] Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it. - [Wisdom] With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. - [Fame] You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. - [Ideas] You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. - [Problems] You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. - [War] You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. - [War] You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - when asked to describe radio [Communication] You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. - [Teaching] The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. - Out of My Later Years [Effort] One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. - Physics and Reality [Mystery] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Sciencem Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium (ch. 13) [Science] 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 I Believe [Curiosity] Displaying page 10 of 10 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10]
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