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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.