My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
Albert EinsteinOne must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Albert EinsteinIt is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.
Albert EinsteinIf the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
Albert Einstein