As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Date of birth: 1879-03-14
Date of death: 1955-04-18
Quotes number: 182
Nationality: German
Profession: Physicist
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.