“The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.”

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.”

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”

“You can believe nothing or everything is a miracle. I believe everything is a miracle.”

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”