The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

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

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

God always takes the simplest way.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.