"Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore."
"I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury."
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Source: Quoted in Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America (1985).
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