Albert Einstein

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

I always found I was in the best of company, alone.

The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.