A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

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.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

God does not play dice.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Information is not knowledge.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.