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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details

If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age

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

I don ‘´t know the weapons that will used in the Third Great War, but in the Forth Great War men will kill each other with stones and wood clubs.

Time is relevant to where you are

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest

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

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Time is relevant to where you are.

Two things inspire me to awe — the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world and through the centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to...

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.

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.