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 killed.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.