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God does not play dice .

I don't believe in mathematics.

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.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

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.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, 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.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.