If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do... I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous.

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.