Albert Einstein

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”

“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.”

“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!”

“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.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”

“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”

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

“I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”

“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”

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

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.”