Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“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.”

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our person...”

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

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

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

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“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.”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“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”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. 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.”

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”

“Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

“The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”

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

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“God is clever, but not dishonest.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

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

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

“A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

“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 dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.”

“I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“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.”

“I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

“Reading after a certain (time) 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.”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

“How do I work? I grope.”

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”

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

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”

“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?”

“Love is a better master than duty.”