"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
— Albert Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
— Albert Einstein

"Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

"Time is an illusion."
— Albert Einstein

""I am not sure of the weapons that will be used in WW III, but I know in WW IV we will use sticks and stones..." "
— Albert Einstein

"When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.""
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk a sign?"
— Albert Einstein

"you do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
— Albert Einstein

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
— Albert Einstein

"There are two ways to live your life. Either as if nothing is a miracle or as if everything is"
— Albert Einstein

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
— –Albert Einstein

"My dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons.

He said, "You can't expect people not to think. Not to know things just because they COULD be bad."

I said, "Yeah, but then they built it and a hundred thousand people died."

My dad laughed and said there were a lot of steps between the thinking and the doing.

Which I know, duh. All I was saying is that when you think of doing something, you don't always know the consequences. For a while people THOUGHT about building the bomb, but nothing happened. In the end it was a lot of different people doing a lot of different things, most of which had nothing to do with the bomb, that did make it happen.

I think about that sometimes. Who was the person who had the first thought, the one that started it all?

And after they had the thought, what was the first thing they did?

I know my uncle never thought, Hey, all this great science- one day I'll use it to kill a whole bunch of people. You just look at his picture; he's not that kind of person.

And yet, I guess in a way he sort of is."
— Mariah Fredericks (Head Games)

"Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else."
— Albert Einstein

"Albert Einstein On Academic Freedom
Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times. "
— Albert Einstein

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little planet, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be prompted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. On the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food handed out under such coercion were to be selected accordingly. "
— Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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— Albert Einstein

"After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved."
— Piet Hein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein,
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— Albert Einstein

"God does not play dice with the universe!"

"Stop telling God what to do!

...An exchange between two physicists"
— Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr

"Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy."
— Daniel M. Greenberger

"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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— Albert Einstein

""Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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— Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
— Albert Einstein

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