"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive." -- Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -- Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge - A. Einstein "Systems should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler." A. Einstein ``Imagination is more important than knowledge'' Albert Einstein Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race. Albert Einstein "Religious thought is an attempt to find an out where there are no doors." A. Einstein ``With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo.'' ``In the past it never occured to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell'' AE The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. -- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921 I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field concept, i. e., on continuous structures. In that case *nothing* remains of my entire castle in the air gravitation theory included, [and of] the rest of modern physics. -- Einstein in a 1954 letter to Besso, quoted from: "Subtle is the Lord", Abraham Pais, page 467.