"A witty saying proves nothing." François Voltaire

Albert Einstein

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

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

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

"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn..."

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

"Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love."

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

"Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe."

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A= X + Y + Z. X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."

"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."

Others

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." (E. Rutherford)

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know." (Mark Twain)

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese proverb)

"The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." (William Bragg)

"If the human mind were simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it." (Pat Bahn)

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." (Bertrand Russell)

"A rolling stone gathers momentum." (Anonymous)

"Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money." (Leon Lederman)

"Ignorant? Ha! I don't even know the meaning of the word." (Anonymous)

"Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us." (Leonardo da Vinci)

"Why are things as they are and not otherwise?" (Johannes Kepler)

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." (Isaac Newton)

"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson)

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