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

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

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

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

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

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein

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

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

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

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein