If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

You can’t solve a problem on the same level you created it.

The question hat drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

I want to know [God’s] thoughts, the rest are details.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of...

Man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

As the circle of light increases, so does its circumference of darkness.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal...

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren’t these the same questions as last year’s [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

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

Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people .

A man’s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.