"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself."

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

"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."

"Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots."

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."

"Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me."

"Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego."

"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

"If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind."

"If it isn't urgent, worry about it later."

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."

"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."

"There are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within these laws only rationally determined constants occur (not constants, therefore, whose numerical value could be changed without destroying the theory)."

"I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering."

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"