Bte Quotes
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Le public est une bête féroce: il faut l’enchaîner ou la fuir.
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La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bête.
— The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid.
— Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Méchant, II. 7
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today 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 represented 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!
— Albert Einstein, in a statement to The Times [London] (28 November 1919), quoted in The New Quotable Einstein (2005) by Alice Calaprice
