If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.
~ Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Reading after a certain (time) 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.
I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.
Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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.
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.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
