Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

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

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

Force always attracts men of low morality.