While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. 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.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.