"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."
- Albert Einstein
“We are concerned here with AN ACT OF HUMANITY with the maintaining of cultural values and not least with a measure of considerable political importance. The effect upon all nations…of the fate of these innocent people so maliciously persecuted must not be underestimated. To leave these victims to their misery would be a heavy blow to all those who believe in human solidarity and would enclourage those who believe only in force and oppression and who act accordingly”
-Albert Einstein; on the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
- Albert Einstein, 1936, The Human Side. Responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein