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.

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?

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

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.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

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...

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one’s self.

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior...

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

I don’t believe in mathematics.

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

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same,...

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy...

Out of clutter find simplicity.From Discord make harmony.In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule.

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people’s education, must serve that end exclusively.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I...

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.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause,...

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor… This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and...

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you’ve given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been...

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

So long as they don’t get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think...

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A...

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.