Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

The Universe is a friendly place.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.