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.

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

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.

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for...

Time is relevant to where you are.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Two things inspire me to awe — the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries – not until then shall we, with...

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

The only source of knowledge is experience

My mind is my laboratory.

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

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!