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

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

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. 

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. 

Information is not knowledge. 

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. 

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. 

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. 

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. 

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. 

Love is a better teacher than duty. 

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

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. 

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

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

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

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

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

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

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.