Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
— Albert Einstein
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.
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.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
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 road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
God always takes the simplest way.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
God does not play dice.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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.
