Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

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.