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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Be a voice, not an echo.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

Everything that you’ve learned: ‘Make a lot of money, have a nice house’. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to communicate with others, how to share values with others. …They teach you how to make a living. You become an optometrist, he becomes a physicist, she becomes a structural engineer, he’s an architect. In the future, none of that. Everybody is trained to be a generalist, so they understand different cultures, different values, how we get to be the way we are. So no-one can ever use you for war or killing anybody or hurting anybody

The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

If you’re reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom’s basement, on text, it looks like it’s equally plausible.

There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will.

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists’ attempts to describe nature.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.