It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.