Failure Is Only Postponed Success As Long

It Is Intelligent To Have A Plan, But Neurotic To Fall In Love With It.

It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. If Something Is In Me Which Can Be Called Religious Then It Is The Unbounded Admiration For The Structure Of The World So Far As Our Science Can Reveal It.

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.

Man Like Every Other Animal Is By Nature Indolent. If Nothing Spurs Him On, Then He Will Hardly Think, And Will Behave From Habit Like An Automaton.

When Forced To Summarize The General Theory Of Relativity In One Sentence: Time And Space And Gravitation Have No Separate Existence From Matter.