Albert Einstein

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

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?

The concern for man and his destiny must always be the chief interest of all technical effort. Never forget it among your diagrams and equations.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

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

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

One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.

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

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

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.