All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
Albert EinsteinHow can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
Albert EinsteinThose people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.
Albert EinsteinThere comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert EinsteinIn the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.
Albert Einstein