What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

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.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.