Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

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

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

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

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."

"I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth."

"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."

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

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)"

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

"The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth."

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

"Information is not knowledge."

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