"What a deep faith in the rationality..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.”

“But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.”

“Failure is success in progress”

“Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.”

“The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.”

“It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.”

“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.”

“Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.”