The important thing is not to stop questioning

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.

When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."

When the solution is simple, God is answering

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.

Where there is love there is no question

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.