Albert Einstein

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

"Play is the highest form of research."

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

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

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

"You never fail until you stop trying."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

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

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

"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 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."

"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."