My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
Albert EinsteinI make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
Albert EinsteinTo a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.
Albert EinsteinEnough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
Albert Einstein