“When you sit with

a nice girl for two hours,

it seems like two minutes.

When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes,

it seems like two hours.

That’s relativity.”

“If I had only known, I would have been

a locksmith.”

“Gravity cannot be held responsible for

people falling in love.”

“Education is that which remains when one

has forgotten everything learned in school.” 

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and

human stupidity, and I am not sure about the

former.”

“A hundred times every day I remind myself

that my inner and outer life, depend on the

labours of other men, living and dead, and

that I must exert myself in order to give in the

same measure as I have received.”

“If my theory of relativity is proven successful,

Germany will claim me as a German,

and France will declare that I am a citizen

of the world.   Should my theory prove untrue,

France will say that I am a German,

and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”

“Since the mathematicians have invaded the

theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself

anymore.”

“Science without religion is lame;

religion without science is blind.”

“These thoughts did not come in any verbal

formulation. I rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes, and I may try to express it in

words afterward.”

“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics,

I assure you that mine are greater.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world

is that it is at all comprehensible.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance

to the tailor.”

“Before God we are all equally wise - equally

foolish.”

“Sometimes one pays most for things one

gets for nothing.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III

will be fought, but World War IV will be fought

with sticks and stones.”