The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.