I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

We are here for the sake of others