Humorous Sayings

Let us now consider, for a little while, how wonderfully we stand upon this world. Here it is we are born, bred, and live, and yet we view these things with an almost entire absence of wonder to ourselves respecting the way in which all this happens.…

Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone, and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen be…

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

You should regard the numerical expressions as being only empirical, because they can not be proved rational.

Instead of falling to the floor, as we expected, it flew across the room till it struck the ceiling, where it fluttered awhile, and finally sank to the floor.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these question…

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly a…

Science advances one funeral at a time.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is fam…

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

No, I certainly do not believe in this superstition. But you know, they say that it does bring luck even if you don't believe in it!

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.