The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in th…

...men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all…

The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability. We say that a sentence is factually signif…