The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

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.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.