Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Never memorize something that you can look up.