Albert Einstein

“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.”

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

“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.”

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

“A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”

“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desir...”

“Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”

“Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar...”

“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.”

“Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.”

“Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of...”

“The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.”

“The reciprocal relationship of epistemology and science is of noteworthy kind. They are dependent upon each other. Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science...”

“The most beatiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand rapt in a...”

“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution... To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination...”

“If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accor...”