Quotations

«One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.»

«To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.»

«If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.»

«If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.»

«Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.»

«Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance.»

«We already know that the world is far more complex, and strange, and beautiful than we thought.»

«[What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God).] We are in the position, ... of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.»

«I thought marketing this product to kids ages four and older is outrageous,»

«The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Living Philosophies, 1931»