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."