I was sitting in the patent office in Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: if a person falls freely, he won't feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
In Kyoto lecture, 1922; quoted in J. Ishiwara, Einstein Koen-Roku (Tokyo, 1977)
The Quotable Einstein, compiled by Alice Calaprice
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