Albert Einstein

"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck"

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"Dancers are the athletes of God."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"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."

"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."