"It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
— Albert Einstein

January 1, 1970

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Albert Einstein
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When asked by Viereck if he considered himself to be a German or a Jew. A version with slightly different wording is quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (2007), p. 386