Quotes from Albert Einstein

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.