If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. – Albert Einstein
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. – Albert Einstein
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. – Albert Einstein
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper