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.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the...

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle

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

Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

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

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

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

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy...

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological...

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but...

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind...

Play is the highest form of research.

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player