Nicodemus Copernicus

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance you must keep moving."

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination embraces the entire world."

"If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough."

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space."

"Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."