As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

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.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?