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

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.