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

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

3. Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of
science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

4. Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of
other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the
same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

5. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of
forming such opinions.

6. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth
can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological
phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems
like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute.
That's relativity.

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

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

9. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

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

11. Imagination is more important than knowledge...

12. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

13. Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man
present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire
population.

14. 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.
15. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy
curiosity.

16. The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

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

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

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

20. To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

21. Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even
if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

22. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

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

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

25. Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our
equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a
matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

26. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far
as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

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

28. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can
labor in freedom.

29. It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to
his convictions in political affairs.
30. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

31. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

32. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

33. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
results.

34. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can
be counted.

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

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

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

38. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is

shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

39. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

40. At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

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

42. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the
duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

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

44. When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always
reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
45. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio
operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
The only difference is that there is no cat.

46. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.

47. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite
direction."

48. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

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

50. "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

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

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

53. "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

54. "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

55. "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

56. "God is subtle but he is not malicious."

57. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

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

59. "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

60. "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

61. "Science without religion is lame.Religion without science is blind."

62. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

63. "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

64. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

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

67. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

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

69. "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates
empirically."

70. "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday

thinking."

71. "Technological progress is like an axe inthe hands of a pathological criminal."

72. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

73. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is

comprehensible."

74. "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them."

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

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

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

78. "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an
equation is something for eternity."

79. "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."

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

81. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as
they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

82. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is

shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

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

84. "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above
all, be a sheep."

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

86. "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel,
even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
87. "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

88. "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?"

89. "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."

90. "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our
equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a
matter of present concern. A mathematical equationstands forever."

91. "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I
had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

92. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

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

94. "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor
way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after
death."

95. "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of
life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge."
96. "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."

97. "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio
operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
The only difference is that there is no cat."

98. "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether
one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I
had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific
problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

99. "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of
 one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from
the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

100."He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal
cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away
with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how
despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of
so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is
nothing but an act of murder."

101."A human being is a part of a whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in

time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings 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."

102."Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be
counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)