I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe