The Environment Is Everything That Isn't Me.

One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.

If I Would Be A Young Man Again And Had To Decide How To Make My Living, I Would Not Try To Become A Scientist Or Scholar Or Teacher. I Would Rather Choose To Be A Plumber Or A Peddler In Hope To Find That Modest Degree Of Independence Still Available Under Present Circumstances.

The Greatest Tragedy Of Human Existence Is The Illusion Of Separateness.

By An Application Of The Theory Of Relativity To The Taste Of Readers, Today In Germany I Am Called A German Man Of Science, And In England I Am Represented As A Swiss Jew. If I Come To Be Represented As A Bête Noire, The Descriptions Will Be Reversed, And I Shall Become A Swiss Jew For The Germans And A German Man Of Science For The English!

The World As We See It Is Only The World As We See It. Others May See It Differently.