Albert Einstein

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."

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

"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."

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

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

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

"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."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

"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."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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

"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity."

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

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

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

"The environment is everything that isn't me."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"The man of science is a poor philosopher."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

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

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"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."

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

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

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"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."

"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."