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

Ego=1/Knowledge” More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

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

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

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.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

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

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

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times,...

One must divide one’s time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

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

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force

Beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds...

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

All our lauded technological progress — our very civilization – is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the...

You never fail until you stop trying.

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

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an...

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

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

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to...

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.

Come with me and . . . think about the electromagnetic theory of light.