Albert Einstein

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Albert Einstein

It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the ‘merely personal,’ from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

Albert Einstein

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

Albert Einstein

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one’s work so devilishly seriously.

Albert Einstein

It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Albert Einstein

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was – but surely not less than three.

Albert Einstein