God Gave Me The Stubbornness Of A

I Assert That The Cosmic Religious Experience Is The Strongest And The Noblest Driving Force Behind Scientific Research.

My Internal And External Life Depend So Much On The Work Of Others That I Must Make An Extreme Effort To Give As Much As I Receive.

Fortunate Newton, Happy Childhood Of Science. Nature To Him Was An Open Book. He Stands Before Us Strong, Certain, And Alone.

Thanks To My Fortunate Idea Of Introducing The Relativity Principle Into Physics, You (and Others) Now Enormously Overrate My Scientific Abilities, To The Point Where This Makes Me Quite Uncomfortable.

In Quitting This Strange World He Has Once Again Preceded Me By A Little. That Doesn't Mean Anything. For Those Of Us Who Believe In Physics, This Separation Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only An Illusion, However Tenacious.