[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.