Manager Solves Problems, Leader Prevents Them.

I Was Sitting In A Chair In The Patent Office At Bern When All Of A Sudden A Thought Occurred To Me: "if A Person Falls Freely He Will Not Feel His Own Weight." I Was Startled. This Simple Thought Made A Deep Impression On Me. It Impelled Me Toward A Theory Of Gravitation.

There Is No Greater Satisfaction For A Just And Well-meaning Person Than The Knowledge That He Has Devoted His Best Energies To The Service Of The Good Cause.

My Deep Religiosity [...] Found An Abrupt Ending At The Age Of Twelve, Through The Reading Of Popular Scientific Books.

The Cult Of Individual Personalities Is Always, In My View, Unjustified. To Be Sure, Nature Distributes Her Gifts Variously Among Her Children. But There Are Plenty Of The Well-endowed Ones Too, Thank God, And I Am Firmly Convinced That Most Of Them Live Quiet, Unregarded Lives.

One Has A Feeling That One Has A Kind Of Home In This Timeless Community Of Human Beings That Strive For Truth. ... I Have Always Believed That Jesus Meant By The Kingdom Of God The Small Group Scattered All Through Time Of Intellectually And Ethically Valuable People.