"Why do people speak of great men..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.”

“Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?”

“Never lose a holy curiosity.”

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”

“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.”

“Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.”

“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”

“If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.”

“Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.”