1、想像力比知識更重要。因為知識是有限的，而想像力是無限,它包含了一切,推動著進步,是人類進化的源泉。

　　原文：Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

　　2、教育就是當一個人把在學校所學全部忘光之后剩下的東西。(愛氏自言引述某前人的話)

　　原文：Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

　　3、沒有宗教的科學是瘸子，沒有科學的宗教是瞎子。

　　原文：Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

　　4、我認為只有大膽的臆測，而不是事實的積累，才能引領我們往前邁進。

　　原文：I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

　　5、如果我們知道我們在做什么，那么這就不叫科學研究了;不是嗎?

　　原文：If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

　　6、有一個現象的明顯程度已經讓我毛骨悚然，這便是我們的人性已經遠遠落后我們的科學技術了。

　　原文:It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

　　7、這個世界最不可理解的就是它竟然是可以理解的。

　　原文:The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

　　8、所謂現實只不過是一個錯覺，雖然這個錯覺非常持久。

　　原文:Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

　　9、把你的手放在滾熱的爐子上一分鐘，感覺起來像一小時。坐在一個漂亮姑娘身邊整整一小時，感覺起來像一分鐘。這就是相對論。

　　原文:Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.