“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.”

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”

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

“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

“Imagination is the highest form of research.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

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

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. 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 each day.”

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

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

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

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

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

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

“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”

“The environment is everything that isn't me.”

“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.”