"Science will stagnate if it is made..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”

“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 and gaining new and wider views.”

“I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.”

“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.”

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”

“Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”

“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.”

“I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.”

“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”