Albert Einstein

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Nothing happens unless something moves.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

The only race I know is the human one.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.