Albert Einstein,

Albert Einstein,

i) " I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research."

ii)  "Imagination is more important than knowledge." 

iii) "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

iv) "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science."


v) "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

vi) "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion"

vii) "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - 


viii) "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - 

ix) "When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter." - 

x) "For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe." - 

xi"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - 

xii) "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." - 

xiii) "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." - 

xiv) "I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research." -