28 quotes found
“Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”
“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”
“It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
“There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
“I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means sim...”
“The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.”
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”
“The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but e...”
“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of re...”
“[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned...”
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”
