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

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

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

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the g

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Only a life in the service of others is worth living.

You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

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

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It many intimidate the human race into bringing order into it’s international af

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

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.

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

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.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

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.

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

The gravity is the first thing which you don’t think

My mind is my laboratory.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking … the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

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

E=mc2

For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.

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.

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to...

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.

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

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one