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

"God does not play dice."

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."

"If I can't picture it, I can't understand it."

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

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

"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work."

"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."

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received."

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

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

"But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"Imagination is the highest form of research."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."

"I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments."

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared."

"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."

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."

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

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

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

"My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

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

"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."

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

"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."

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

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

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

"Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value."

"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

"Play is the highest form of research."

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

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"I have just got a new theory of eternity."