My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.