Albert Einstein

"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"

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

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

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

"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 we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."

"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."

"Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."

"Reading, after a certain age, 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."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

"Information is not knowledge."

"Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots"

"Dancers are the athletes of God."

"Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar..."

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'"LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64"

"Never memorize something that you can look up."

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."