If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

- Albert Einstein

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

- Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

- Albert Einstein

Never memorize something that you can look up.

- Albert Einstein

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

- Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

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.

- Albert Einstein

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

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.

- Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

- Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

- Albert Einstein

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the true source of art, science, and friendship.

- Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

- Albert Einstein

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

- The New Quotable Einstein , Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

- Albert Einstein

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.

- Albert Einstein

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the colors of patriotism.

- Albert Einstein

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.

- Albert Einstein

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

- Albert Einstein

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!

- Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

- Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

- Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

- Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein