Albert Einstein

"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

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

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

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

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

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"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."

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

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"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."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)"

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

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

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