Albert Einstein Distance Quotations

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.

I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player