Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Love is a better master than duty.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

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.

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

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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

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

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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

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

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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

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

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

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

Know where to find the information and how to use it. That’s the secret to success.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Einstein on time travel:"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy.

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

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

God does not play dice with the universe.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

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

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

Information is not knowledge.

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

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.