"Most of the fundamental ideas of science..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.”

“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”

“Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.”

“More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.”

“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”

“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

“Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.”