“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments”

“I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.”

“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.”

“Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.”

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”

“The tendencies we have mentioned are something new for America. They arose when, under the influence of the two World Wars and the consequent concentration of all forces on a military goal, a predominantly military mentality developed, which with the almost sudden victory became even more accentuated. The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years. I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and I know that, independent of me, this analogy has most painfully occurred to others as well. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts—in short, the psychological factors—are considered as unimportant and secondary. Herein lies a certain resemblance to Marxism, at least insofar as its theoretical side alone is kept in view. The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes “human materiel.” The normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint. Instead, the military mentality raises “naked power” as a goal in itself—one of the strangest illusions to which men can succumb.”

“I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.”

“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” 

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.”

“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”

“One picture is worth a thousand words”