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| We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings | | Uncategorized | |
| We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. | | Uncategorized | |
| We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there | | Uncategorized | |
| We found there were people doing acupuncture, meditation, naturopathy and other forms of alternative or complementary medicine ... but it was being done in a disorganized way, | | Uncategorized | |
| We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. | | Doing Your Best | |
| We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. | | Heroism; Memorial day; War | |
| We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. | | Uncategorized | |
| We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made | | Uncategorized | |
| We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the br | | Uncategorized | |
| We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. | | Uncategorized | |
| We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. | | Personality | |
| We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. | | Uncategorized | |
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| What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous | | Uncategorized | |
| What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism | | Feelings; Nature | |
| What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. The World as I See It, 1934 | | Uncategorized | |
| What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. | | World | |
| When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. | | Uncategorized | |
