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We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

We are living in a science fiction world.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.