I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.