By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, to-day 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 regarded 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!
ATTRIBUTION:
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born-U.S. theoretical physicist. “Einstein on His Theory,” Times (London, November 28, 1919).
