A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Letter to Harry S. Truman.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. This was on a sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton, which is often quoted as a statement by him; research should be able to reveal whether or not it originated with Einstein.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Remark to Ernst Straus, one of his assistants.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
I wish they don't forget to keep those treasures pure which they have in excellence over the west: their artistic building of life, the simplicity and modesty in personal need, and the pureness and calmness of Japanese soul. Referring to the Japanese people.
