Albert Einstein

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Albert Einstein

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

Albert Einstein

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty.

Albert Einstein

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

Albert Einstein

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Albert Einstein

I have no extraordinary ability. I’m simply an inquisitive individual.

Albert Einstein

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Albert Einstein

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

Albert Einstein

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to.

Albert Einstein

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone – the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

Albert Einstein