The following quotes are from the Science News, March 31, 1979, report on a conference held at the Smithsonian Institute in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth.

"Creativity by definition means to free one's self of old assumptions, to discern previously unseen patterns and dare. "

"To the sphere of religion belongs the faith that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that it is comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by the image: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry."

"The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an inexorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says 'Yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says 'Maybe,' and in the majority of cases simply 'No.'"

"Man seeks to form for himself in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative philosopher, the natural scientist, each in his own way."

"One thing I have learned in long life: That all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike --- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."

For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one."

"The only thing which the individual can do is to give a fine example and to have the courage seriously to stand up for ethical convictions in the company of critics."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism --- how intensely I hate them, how vile and despicable war appears to me; I would rather be torn limb from limb than take part in such business."

"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."