Albert Einstein

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

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."

"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."

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

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

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

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

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

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

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

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

"Force always attracts men of low morality."

"God always takes the simplest way."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."

"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

"I love to travel, but hate to arrive."

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

"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."

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

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

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

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

"Love is a better teacher than duty."