I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him...

Knowledge isn’t truth. It’s just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else – we all have knowledge. We haven’t come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by...

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think...

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

I realized that more and more I was saying, ‘It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million...

Imagination ist alles. Es ist die vorschau des lebens auf die kommenden attraktionen.

MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn’t play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn’t play dice with the universe

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

This may be why Einstein once said; “Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses...

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its...

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

the Bradman class” denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was...

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.

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.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

If I could have anyone’s mind for a day, I really can’t think of anyone other than Einstein.

There is no doubt that Einstein’s pipe was his closest associate, while others–including wife and family–were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

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

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in 1905 five papers on entirely different subjects. Three of them were among the...

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved...

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

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.

After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalised by extending it to all material particles and...

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

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: ‘Who’s the third?

…why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age….

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

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

I would die of lonely.

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in...

Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior...

All our lauded technological progress — our very civilization – is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

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?

If you can’t illustrate ‘it’, ‘it’ doens’t belong in Physics as a noun! You can’t put an article in front. You can’t put a verb after!

By the power of the Tri-Force, I command you to “——-

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach

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...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based...

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it’s as old as math itself. The word “calculate” reflects that legacy — it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble...

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...