The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

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

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

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954.

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

He who joyfully marches 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.

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.