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?

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

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

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.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered...

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

My mind is my laboratory

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the...

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which...

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic...

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there...

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure personages is the only...

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new

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

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms ”°...

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – This is a somewhat new kind of religion

a purely algebraic physics.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Time is relevant to where you are