Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.'

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.