Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein
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 fully suffice. – Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? – Albert Einstein
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. – Lewis Mumford, “Orientation to Life,” The Conduct of Life, 1951