"It gives me great pleasure indeed to..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.”

“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”

“I must find a truth that is true for me.”

“One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.”

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.”

“...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”

“I will not descend among professors and capitalists.”