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"Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen."
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Something deeply hidden had to be behind things."
"The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not."
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
"It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)"
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies."
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?"
"There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!"
"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food."
"A storm broke loose in my mind."
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
"[Bias against the Negro] is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers."
"God may be subtle, but He isn't mean."
"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."