To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their h...
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a h...
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stub...
Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing w...
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.