What Good Is A Reputation Not Put

When The Nazis Came To Power, I Looked To The Universities That Prided Themselves Upon Their Intellectual Freedom, And They Failed Me. I Looked To The German Press, Which Prided Itself On The Freedom Of The Press, And It Failed Me. Until At Last The Churches Stood Alone, And That For Which I Once Had Little Regard Earned My Respect.

The True Sign Of Intelligence Is Not Knowledge But Imagination.

Since I Do Not Forsee That Atomic Energy Is To Be A Great Boon For A Long Time, I Have To Say That For The Present It Is A Menace. Perhaps It Is Well That It Should Be. It May Intimidate The Human Race Into Bringing Order Into Its International Affairs, Which, Without The Presence Of Fear, It Would Not Do.

I Am Exclusively Occupied With The Problem Of Gravitation And Hope With The Help Of A Local Mathematician Friend [marcel Grossman] To Overcome All The Difficulties. One Thing Is Certain, However, That Never In Life Have I Been Quite So Tormented. A Great Respect For Mathematics Has Been Instilled Within Me, The Subtler Aspects Of Which, In My Stupidity, I Regarded Until Now As Pure Luxury.

It Is Better To Believe Than To Disbelieve; In Doing You Bring Everything To The Realm Of Possibility.