The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics.

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.