1、想像力比知识更重要。因为知识是有限的，而想像力是无限,它包含了一切,推动着进步,是人类进化的源泉。

　　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、教育就是当一个人把在学校所学全部忘光之后剩下的东西。(爱氏自言引述某前人的话)

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

　　3、没有宗教的科学是瘸子，没有科学的宗教是瞎子。

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

　　4、我认为只有大胆的臆测，而不是事实的积累，才能引领我们往前迈进。

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

　　5、如果我们知道我们在做什么，那么这就不叫科学研究了;不是吗?

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

　　6、有一个现象的明显程度已经让我毛骨悚然，这便是我们的人性已经远远落后我们的科学技术了。

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

　　7、这个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、所谓现实只不过是一个错觉，虽然这个错觉非常持久。

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

　　9、把你的手放在滚热的炉子上一分钟，感觉起来像一小时。坐在一个漂亮姑娘身边整整一小时，感觉起来像一分钟。这就是相对论。

　　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.