" 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. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Imagination is more important than knowledge. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? "

Albert Einstein.

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

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Imagination is more important than knowledge. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. "

Albert Einstein, (attributed) US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books – a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Truth is what stands the test of experience. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" 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. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" 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. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" 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. "

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It. US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. "

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947 US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" It is the theory that decides what we can observe. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" 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. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. "

Albert Einstein, “Autobiographical Notes” US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. "

Albert Einstein, On Education US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. "

Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69 US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" When all think alike, no one thinks very much. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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