Albert Einstein

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

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that_x000D_ tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.