Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.
[Subtle is God, but malicious He is not.]
¶ Remark at Princeton University (Apr. 1921)
Source. Later inscribed in Fine Hall, Princeton University. Quoted in Einstein, ch. 14, R.W. Clark (1973). Einstein in 1946 gave a looser translation: “God is slick, but he ain’t mean.”
