The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

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

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.

Yes, we must divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations.

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