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God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.
-- Albert Einstein [source: spoken to Princeton University mathematics professor Oscar Veblen, May 1921, while Einstein was in Princeton for a series of lectures, quoted in Einstein (1973) by R. W. Clark, Ch. 14. Sometimes translated as "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not" and "God is slick, but he ain't mean" and "God is subtle but he is not malicious" and "God may be sophisticated, but he's not malicious."
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