The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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.

One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.