The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained i…

- Hermann Minkowski

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

- Hermann Minkowski

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an indep…

- Hermann Minkowski

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

- Hermann Minkowski

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

- Hermann Minkowski

The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid el…

- Hermann Minkowski