The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.