“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

“To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”

“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”

“I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”

“Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”