Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Date of birth: 1879-03-14
Date of death: 1955-04-18
Quotes number: 182
Nationality: German
Profession: Physicist
Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.