Albert Einstein

Imagination is the highest form of research.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.