It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

God casts the die, not the dice.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.