Albert Einstein

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

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

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.