"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

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Source: What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. October 26, 1929.

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Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist known for developing the theory of relativity, which transformed our understanding of space, time, and energy.

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