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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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The human spirit must prevail over technology.

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The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I...more

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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious...more

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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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.

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I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

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Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

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Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains ...more

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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven s...more

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[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

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A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimula...more

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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be kille...more