Nicodemus Copernicus

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."

"The truth is like a lion; you do not have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"Everything we can imagine is real."

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."

"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them rigorously."

"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks."

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"Each of us visits this earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science."

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."

"True education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."

"Authoritarian systems are bad, not because they fail to get good intentions, but because the power they confer is bad for people."

"One does not simply walk into success; one must be willing to stumble along the way."

"The universe does not belong to us; we belong to the universe."

"Being in love is a better thing than being in power."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"That is the greatest secret—it is only the impossible that is possible, and all else is merely difficult."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"There exists a passion for comprehension just as there exists a passion for music among different human beings."