I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.