The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
Albert EinsteinThat is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
Albert EinsteinPure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
Albert EinsteinThe ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein