To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

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.