Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

God does not play dice.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

God always takes the simplest way.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.