If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.
Where there is love, there is no imposition.
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.