The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.