Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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 suffice.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.
No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.
There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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