The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

Time is an illusion.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking