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Every intellectual who is called before one of the committees ought to refuse to testify. . . . This kind of inquisition violates the spirit of the Constitution. If enough people are ready to take this grave step they will be successful. If not, then the intellectuals of this country deserve nothing better than the slavery which is intended for them.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

Every reminiscence is colored by today’s being what it is, and therefore by a deceptive point of view.

Although Einstein never wrote an autobiography, he did pen “Autobiographical Notes” in 1946, though this excerpt betrays what he thought of autobiographies.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man…
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Everything that is great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

Einstein was famously humble and knew that to succeed in any grand way, one had to accept the inevitable failure that would precede it. – 1919

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