If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called... - Albert Einstein

"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."

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

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

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."