Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Information is not knowledge.

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.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

God always takes the simplest way.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

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

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

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

God does not play dice.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.