The value of achievement lies in the achieving. |
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. |
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. |
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. |
The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it. |
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything |
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything |
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler. |
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. |
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. |
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. |
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. |
There is not the slightest indication that (nuclear) energy will ever be obtainable |
There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom |
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation. |