Albert Einstein

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Albert Einstein

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

Albert Einstein

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

Albert Einstein

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

Albert Einstein