Albert Einstein

All our lauded technological progress - our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

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

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities,
for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

A human being is part of the whole called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest...
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 the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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

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.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.