When I Was Young I

The State Exists For Man, Not Man For The State. The Same May Be Said Of Science. These Are Old Phrases, Coined By People Who Saw In Human Individuality The Highest Human Value. I Would Hesitate To Repeat Them, Were It Not For The Ever Recurring Danger That They May Be Forgotten, Especially In These Days Of Organization And Stereotypes.

Time Is Not At All What It Seems. It Does Not Flow In Only One Direction, And The Future Exists Simultaneously With The Past.

I Now See The Necessity Of A Beginning.

I Made One Great Mistake In My Life-when I Signed The Letter To President Roosevelt Recommending That Atom Bombs Be Made But There Was Some Justification-the Danger That The Germans Would Make Them.

If You Are Out To Describe The Truth, Leave Elegance To The Tailor. On Being Reproached That His Formula Of Gravitation Was Longer And More Cumbersome Than Newton's.