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 fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.