No, this trick won’t work… How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren’t these the same questions as last year’s [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.