Quotes by Albert Einstein

"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

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

"If I had my life to live over again, I would live it as a trader of goods."

"The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to insure the unhindered development of the individual."

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.  I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.  If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."