Quotes by Albert Einstein

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?"

"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one."

"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."

"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed."

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

"God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean."

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

"I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world."

"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."

"God does not play dice."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."