10. ON THE MEANING OF LIFE (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."



9. ON OTHER CAREER PATHS (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin."

8. ON EDUCATION (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave. This was a Catholic School in Munich. I felt that my thirst for knowledge was being strangled by my teachers; grades were their only measurement. How can a teacher understand youth with such a system?"

7. ON SURVIVAL (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives."

6. ON BEING FAMOUS (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives. It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque." 

5. WHEN ASKED IF HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF A GERMAN OR A JEW (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

4. ON WAR (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war." 

3. ON SEGREGATION (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."

2. ON HIS LIFE'S PARADOX (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself."

1. ON LACKING TALENT (Albert Einstein Quotes)

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."