God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

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.