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• "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."

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

• "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."

• "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

• "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."

• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

• "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

• "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

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

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

• "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

• "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

• " That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

• "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

• "There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

• "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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

• "The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."

• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

• "The important thing is not to stop questioning."

• " The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

• "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

• "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

• " Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."

• " Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

• "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

• " It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

• "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

• " I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

• "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

• " Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

• "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

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