Albert Einstein

Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Fantasie is belangrijker dan kennis, want kennis is begrensd.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

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.

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 have just got a new theory of eternity.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

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

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

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