Quotes by Mathematician

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

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity."

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."

"The most powerful force in the world is compound interest."

"I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books."

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

"I have just got a new theory of eternity."

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

"There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more."

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

"Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought."

"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed."

"Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book."

"Love is a better master than duty."

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

"Information is not knowledge."

"Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions."

"You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking."

"I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?"

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."