Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

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

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.