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My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive wit...more

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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. Tha...more

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

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

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

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It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the contemplation and exploration of objective and timele...more

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For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.

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Time is an illusion.

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The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more t...more

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