Time does not exist - we invented it

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.