A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.