People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you...

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.