The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.
Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.
As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
