Albert Einstein
- Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- The more I study Physics, the more I am drawn to Metaphysics.
- God does not play dice.
- Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- 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 has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.
That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics,
know that the distinction between past, present, and future is
only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and
hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.
- When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people
and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
- The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.