Collected Quotes of Albert Einstein

· "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

· "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

· "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

· "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

· "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

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

· "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

· "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

· "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

· "God is subtle but he is not malicious."

· "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

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

· "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

· "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

· "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

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

· "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

· "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

· "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

· "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

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

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

· "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

· "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

· "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

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

· "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

· "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

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

· "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

· "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

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

· "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

· "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

· "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

· "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

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

· "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

· "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

· "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."

· "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

· "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?"

· "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."

· "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."