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  1. A desk, some pads and a pencil, and a large wastebasket to hold all of my...
  2. ...mistakes. (at Princeton University in 1935, when asked what he would require for his study.)
  3. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
  4. The only source of knowledge is experience.
  5. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
  6. Before God we are all equally wise — and equally foolish.
  7. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
  8. Die Quantenmechanik ist sehr achtunggebietend. Aber eine innere Stimme sagt mir, daß das noch nicht der wahre Jakob ist. Die...
  9. ...Theorie liefert viel, aber dem Geheimnis des Alten bringt sie uns kaum näher. Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, daß der Alte nicht
  10. ...würfelt.
  11. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
  12. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous...
  13. ...structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
  14. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
  15. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
  16. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
  17. Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.
  18. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He...
  19. ...has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
  20. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.