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.

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?

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really...

Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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

Strange is our Situation Here Upon Earth.

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of...

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

E = mc2 Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

God does not play dice with the universe.

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

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect...

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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...

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it...

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...

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly...

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Nothing happens until something moves.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that’s relativity.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.