Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

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.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

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

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.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Information is not knowledge.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

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.

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.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.