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All The Fifty Years Of Conscious Brooding Have Brought Me No Closer To Answer The Question, "what Are Light Quanta?" Of Course Today Every Rascal Thinks He Knows The Answer, But He Is Deluding Himself.

He Who Joyfully Marches To Music In Rank And File Has Already Earned My Contempt. He Has Been Given A Large Brain By Mistake, Since For Him The Spinal Cord Would Suffice.

Every Kind Of Peaceful Cooperation Among Men Is Primarily Based On Mutual Trust And Only Secondarily On Institutions Such As Courts Of Justice And Police.

There Are Moments When One Feels Free From One's Own Identification With Human Limitations And Inadequacies. At Such Moments One Imagines That One Stands On Some Spot Of A Small Planet, Gazing In Amazement At The Cold Yet Profoundly Moving Beauty Of The Eternal, The Unfathomable; Life And Death Flow Into One, And There Is Neither Evolution Nor Destiny; Only Being.

Einstein Was Attending A Music Salon In Germany Before The Second World War, With The Violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese Women Played A German Piece Of Music And A Woman In The Audience Exclaimed: "how Wonderful! It Sounds So German!" Einstein Responded: "madam, People Are All The Same."