I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.