After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Not all that counts, can be counted