The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

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

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never...

If it isn’t urgent, worry about it later

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.’

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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

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

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

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

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.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a...

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of...

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

There’s a Genius in all of us.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through...

Dear Miss .I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript … I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when...

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe

With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to...

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...

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be research.

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.