The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity." -- Albert Einstein

"Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

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

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

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

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds...

It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet

A human being is a part of a 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.”

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.

Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (In reference to the death

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

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom

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.

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

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.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.