When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.