Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
— Albert Einstein
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Information is not knowledge.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
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.
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
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.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
