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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

The only time you mustn’t fail is the last time you try.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference – asking good questions – made me become a scientist.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Whenever you can, count.

Trusting the experts is not a function of science. It is not a function of democracy. It is a function of religion and totalitarianism, and it does not make for a healthier population.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

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

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

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man’s ethical behavior.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

There was a young fellow from Trinity,Who took the square root of infinity.But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Thinking is seeing…. Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.