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* “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

* “Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”

* “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

* “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

* “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

* “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”

* “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”

* “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

* “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

* “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!”

* “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

* “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”

* “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

* “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”