Quotes from Albert Einstein

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

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

We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

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

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.