The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.
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.
Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.