Rabu, 22 Februari 2012
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
It’s not that I’m so smart , it’s just that I stay with problems longer .
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
God always takes the simplest way.
God does not play dice.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Information is not knowledge.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Hakikatku adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan.
Selagi ada cinta tidak perlu ada lagi pertanyaan
Aku Berpikir terus menerus berbulan-bulan dan bertahun tahun, sembilan puluh sembilan kali dan kesimpulannya salah. Untuk yang keseratus aku benar.
Kalau mereka ingin menemuiku, aku ada disini. Kalau mereka ingin bertemu dengan pakaianku, bukalah lemariku dan tunjukkan pada mereka. (Ketika istrinya memintanya berganti untuk menemui Duta Besar Jerman)
Kebanyakan orang mengatakan bahwa kecerdasanlah yang melahirkan seorang ilmuwan besar. Mereka salah, karakterlah yang melahirkannya.
Tanda kecerdasan sejati bukanlah pengetahuan tapi imajinasi.
Imajinasi lebih berharga daripada ilmu pengetahuan. Logika akan membawa Anda dari A ke B. Imajinasi akan membawa Anda kemana-mana.
Tidak ada eksperimen yang bisa membuktikan aku benar, namun sebaliknya sebuah eksperimen saja bisa membuktikan aku salah.
Orang-orang seperti kita, yang percaya pada fisika, mengetahui bahwa perbedaan antara masa lalu, masa kini, dan masa depan hanyalah sebuah ilusi yang terus menerus ada.
Dunia ini adalah sebuah tempat yang berbahaya untuk didiami, bukan karena orang-orangnya jahat, tapi karena orang-orangnya tak perduli.
Mencari kebenaran lebih bernilai dibandingkan menguasainya.
Hidup itu seperti naik sepeda. Agar tetap seimbang, kau harus terus bergerak.
Sudah saatnya cita-cita kesuksesan diganti dengan cita-cita pengabdian.
Lebih mudah mengubah plutonium dari pada mengubah sifat jahat manusia.
Tidak ada yang lebih merusak martabat pemerintah dan hukum negeri dibanding meloloskan undang-undang yang tidak bisa ditegakkan.
Belajarlah dari masa lalu, hiduplah untuk masa depan. Yang terpenting adalah tidak berhenti bertanya.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
Ilmu pengetahuan tanpa agama= buta, agama tanpa ilmu pengetahuan=lumpuh.
Hakikatku adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan
Selagi ada cinta tidak perlu ada lagi pertanyaan
Aku Berpikir terus menerus berbulan bulan dan bertahun tahun, sembilan puluh sembilan kali dan kesimpulannya salah. Untuk yang keseratus aku benar.
Kalau mereka ingin menemuiku, aku ada disini. Kalau mereka ingin bertemu dengan pakaianku, bukalah lemariku dan tunjukkan pada mereka. (Ketika istrinya memintanya berganti untuk menemui Duta Besar Jerman)
Kebanyakan orang mengatakan bahwa kecerdasanlah yang melahirkan seorang ilmuwan besar. Mereka salah, karakterlah yang melahirkannya.
Tanda kecerdasan sejati bukanlah pengetahuan tapi imajinasi.
Imajinasi lebih berharga daripada ilmu pengetahuanLogika akan membawa Anda dari A ke B. Imajinasi akan membawa Anda kemana-mana.
Tidak ada eksperimen yang bisa membuktikn aku benar, namun sebaliknya sebuah eksperimen saja bisa membuktikan aku salah.
Orang-orang seperti kita, yang percaya pada fisika, mengetahui bahwa perbedaan antaramasa lalu, masa kini, dan masa depan hanyalah sebuah ilusi yang terus menerus ada.
Dunia ini adalah sebuah tempat yang berbahaya untuk didiami, bukan karena orang-orangnya jahat, tapi karena orang-orangnya tak perduli.
Mencari kebenaran lebih bernilai dibandingkan menguasainya.
Hidup itu seperti naik sepeda. Agar tetap seimbang, kau harus terus bergerak.
Sudah saatnya cita-cita kesuksesan diganti dengan cita-cita pengabdian.
Lebih mudah mengubah plutonium dari pada mengubah sifat jahat manusia.
Tidak ada yang lebih merusak martabat pemerintah dan hukum negeri dibanding meloloskan undang-undang yang tidak bisa ditegakkan.
Belajarlah dari masa lalu, hiduplah untuk masa depan. Yang terpenting adalah tidak berhenti bertanya.
Generasi-generasi yang akan datang akan kehilangan keyakinan bahwa manusia akan berjalan di muka bumi dengan darah dan daging.
Nilai manusia terletak pada apa yang bisa dia terima.
Kalau nilai 9 itu kesuksesan dalam kehidupan, maka nilai 9 sama dengan x ditambah y ditambah z. Bekerja adalah x, y adalah bermain, dan z adalah untuk berdiam diri.
Orang berjiwa besar akan selalu menghadapi perlawanan hebat dari orang2
"PICIK".
Barangsiapa yang tidak pernah melakukan kesalahan,
maka dia tidak pernah mencoba sesuatu yang baru
Hal yang paling sukar dipahami di dunia ini
adalah pajak penghasilan.
Kecerdasan tidak banyak berperan dalam proses penemuan.
Ada suatu lompatan dalam kesadaran,
sebutlah itu intuisi atau apapun namanya,
solusinya muncul begitu saja dan
kita tidak tahu bagaimana atau mengapa.
Kebahagiaan dalam melihat dan
memahami merupakan anugerah
terindah alam.
Hanya ada dua cara menjalani kehidupan kita.
Pertama adalah seolah tidak ada keajaiban.
Kedua adalah seolah segala sesuatu adalah keajaiban.
Usaha pencarian kebenaran dan keindahan
merupakan kegiatan yang memberi peluang bagi kita
untuk menjadi kanak-kanak sepanjang hayat.
Hanya seseorang yang mengabdikan dirinya untuk
suatu alasan dengan seluruh kekuatan dan jiwanya yang
bisa menjadi seorang guru sejati. Dengan
alasan ini penguasaan menuntut semuanya dari seseorang.
Di tengah kesulitan ada kesempatan.
Kita tidak bisa menyelesaian suatu masalah dengan jalan berpikir yang sama ketika kita menemukan masalah tersebut.
Rahasia kreatifitas adalah mengetahui bagaimana menyembunyikan sumber kreatifitas tersebut.
Saya bukanlah pintar, boleh dibilang saya lebih lama bertahan dalam menghadapi masalah.
Imajinasi adalah segalanya. Imajinasi penarik masa depan. Imajinasi lebih penting dari pengetahuan.
Saya tidak pernah memikirkan masa depan-itu akan datang sebentar lagi.
Berusahalah dengan keras, bukan untuk menjadi sukses tapi untuk menjadi lebih berharga.
Kegilaan adalah melakukan sesuatu berulang-ulang dan mengharapkan hasil yang berbeda.
Informasi bukanlah pengetahuan. Pengetahuan satu-satunya adalah pengalaman.
Anda harus memahami aturan permainan. Dan Anda harus lebih baik bermain daripada pemain lainnya.
Setiap orang bodoh yang cerdas bisa membuat sesuatu yang lebih besar, lebih kompleks, dan lebih keras. Dibutuhkan sentuhan jenius untuk dapat bergerak ke arah yang berlawanan.
Seorang manusiamengalami pemikiran-pemikiran dan perasaan-perasaan sendiri sebagai sesuatu yang terpisah dari manusia lainnya, hal ini sebagai sejenis ilusi optis kesadaran.
Kyahalan ilusi manusia ibarat penjara bagi langkah kehidupan manusia, membatasi kita pada hasrat-hasrat kehidupan pribadi dan pada kasih sayang orang-orang yang dekat dengan kita.
Nilai sejati seorang manusia ditentukan pertama-tama oleh tindakan dan pengertian yang di dalamnya ia telah mencapai pembebasan dari dirinya sendiri.
Tugas manusia adalah membebaskan diri dari penjara ilusi yang dibuatnya dengan memperluas lingkaran pengertian dan belas kasih kita sehingga dapat dirasakan oleh segenap makhluk hidup dan seantero alam beserta keindahannya.
Ilmu adalah usaha untuk membuat keberagaman yang mengacaukan pengalaman indra kita sesuai dengan suatu sistem pikiran yang seragam secara logis. Pengalaman indra adalah pokok persoalan yang sudah tersedia. Tetapi teori yang akan menafsirkannya adalah buatan manusia. Teori bersifat hipotesis, tidak pernah pasti dan akan selalu tunduk pada keraguan dan kenyataan.
Esensi persis kita untuk memahami ialah, di satu sisi mencoba mencakup aneka ragam pengalaman manusia yang hebat dan rumit dan di sisi lain mencari kesederhanaan dan penghematan dalam memahami asumsi-asumsi dasar.
Nilai seseorang seharusnya dilihat dari apa yang ia berikan, dan bukan dari apa yang ia terima. (Albert Einstein)
Seseorang yang sukses adalah orang yang menerima banyak hal dari orang lain, biasanya lebih banyak dibandingkan dengan apa yang ia berikan kepada orang lain. (Albert Einstein)
Hanya cinta yang dapat memberikan semangat kehidupan bagi orang lain yang bermanfaat. (Albert Einstein)
Imajinasi lebih penting daripada pengetahuan. (Albert Einstein)
Tidak semua yang dapat menghitung dapat dihitung, dan tidak semua yang dapat dihitung dapat menghitung. (Albert Einstein)
Berusahalah untuk tidak menjadi manusia yang berhasil tapi berusahalah menjadi manusia yang berguna. (Albert Einstein)
Sungguh sedikit mereka yang melihat dengan mata mereka sendiri dan merasakan dengan hati mereka sendiri. (Albert Einstein)
Apa yang saya saksikan di Alam adalah sebuah tatanan agung yang tidak dapat kita pahami dengan sangat tidak menyeluruh, dan hal itu sudah semestinya menjadikan seseorang yang senantiasa berpikir dilingkupi perasaan “rendah hati.” (Albert Einstein)
Dua hal yang membangkitkan ketakjuban saya – langit bertaburkan bintang di atas dan alam semesta yang penuh hikmah di dalamnya. (Albert Einstein)
Agama sejati adalah hidup yang sesungguhnya; hidup dengan seluruh jiwa seseorang, dengan seluruh kebaikan dan kebajikan seseorang. (Albert Einstein)
Perdamaian tidak dapat dijaga dengan kekuatan. Hal itu hanya dapat diraih dengan pengertian. (Albert Einstein) Ilmu pengetahuan tanpa agama adalah pincang. (Albert Einstein)
Imajinasi lebih penting daripada pengetahuan. (Albert Einstein)
Masalah penting yang kita hadapi kini tidak dapat kita pecahkan pada tingkat berfikir yang sama seperti kita menciptakan masalah tersebut. (Albert Einstein)
Masalah signifikan yang kita hadapi hari ini tidak akan dapat diatasi dengan tingkat pemikiran yang sama dengan ketika kita menciptakannya. (Albert Einstein)
Jangan salahkan grativasi jika kau jatuh cinta. (Albert Einstein)
Bukan karena saya pintar, tapi saya memecahkan masalah walaupun dalam waktu yang lama. (Albert Einstein)
Hidup itu seperti naik sepeda Untuk menjaga keseimbangan Anda, Anda harus terus bergerak.. (Albert Einstein)
Kepercayaan adalah tujuan mendapatkan ilmu pengetahuan yang rumit dan kesederhanaan dalam kehidupan dapat hidup berdampingan, dari segi pengetahuan ilmiah kita yang bersahaja adalah masalah iman.
From My Daughter... Wehehehe :P
