I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.