Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind
Albert EinsteinWhat I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
Albert EinsteinIn every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions
Albert EinsteinWhen I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.
Albert EinsteinThe distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
Albert Einstein