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101 " Being a Jew was a disadvantage; being a nonbeliever who claimed no religion was a disqualifier. The empire required that all of its servants, including professors, be a member of some religion. On his official forms, Einstein had written that he had none. “Einstein is as unpractical as a child in cases like this,” Friedrich Adler’s wife noted. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

102 " Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

103 " Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

104 " An academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality,” he said. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

105 " According to the assumption to be considered here, when a light ray is propagated from a point, the energy is not continuously distributed over an increasing space but consists of a finite number of energy quanta which are localized at points in space and which can be produced and absorbed only as complete units. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

106 " new sister for the first time, he was led to believe that she was like a wonderful toy that he would enjoy. His response was to look at her and exclaim, “Yes, but where are the wheels?”12 It may not have been the most perceptive of questions, "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

107 " more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

108 " it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.” 57 "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

109 " Adolf Hitler polled highest as the “greatest living person.” Albert Einstein was second. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

110 " When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau Inn refused her a room. So Einstein invited her to stay at his house on Mercer Street, in what was a deeply personal as well as a publicly symbolic gesture. Two "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

111 " As a Jew who had grown up in Germany, Einstein was acutely sensitive to such discrimination. “The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me,” he wrote in an essay called “The Negro Question” for Pageant magazine. “I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

112 " The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations,” he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. “The conduct of the German intellectuals—viewed as a class—was no better than that of the mob. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

113 " Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

114 " Einstein’s pacifism, world federalism, and aversion to nationalism were part of a political outlook that also included a passion for social justice, a sympathy for underdogs, an antipathy toward racism, and a predilection toward socialism. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

115 " my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

116 " He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet. "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

117 " I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

118 " Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity. He could construct complex equations, but more important, he knew that math is the language nature uses to describe her wonders. So he could visualize how equations were reflected in realities—how the electromagnetic field equations discovered by James Clerk Maxwell, for example, would manifest themselves to a boy riding alongside a light beam. As he once declared, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”6 "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

119 " Einstein later said, “it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.”57 "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe

120 " Long live impudence! "

― Walter Isaacson , Einstein: His Life and Universe