The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.