Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

So long as there are men there will be wars

LOVE: He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[My] deep religiosity… found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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

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...

E=mc2

Never memorize something that you can look up.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people–first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many,...

Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

We experience ourselves our 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...

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn’t know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!

I don ‘´t know the weapons that will used in the Third Great War, but in the Forth Great War men will kill each other with stones and wood clubs.

M-Theory: The Mother of All Superstrings.

Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that...

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained...

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond...

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

A man’s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics

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

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit...

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man...

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

No, this trick wont work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man’s discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded...

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual,...

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.