'Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world'

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "

-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
from his essay: The World As I See It
"To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest
-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.  Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel,
is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity.

In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man...
I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity
and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence
-- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of
the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
(Taken from his book: "World As I See It")
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, thinking what nobody has thought."

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(1893-1986 : Hungarian-born US biochemist who discovered vitamins C and B2, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1937; taken
from: The Scientist Speculates ed I.G. Good, 1962)