Albert Einstein

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

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."

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

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."

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

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."

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

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters"

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

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

"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)"

"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."

"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."