The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Knowledge is limited.

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

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.