The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.