- At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice. »
- I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. »
- God may be subtle, but He isn't mean. »
- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. »
- 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. »
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. »
- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. »
- He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. »
- I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. »
- There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. »
- 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. »
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