Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way...

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights...

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

We can’t solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference!

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people .

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and...

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them – these are the best guides for man

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, – Truth is what stands the test of experience

The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse....

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty… this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

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.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Work is 1% inspiration plus 99% transpiration

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

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...

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

During the youthful period of mankind’s spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man’s own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal...

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious...

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are...

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal...

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual’s instinct for self preservation.

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility...

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure...

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.