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"The following quotes are completely unverified, information about the sources of any of them would also be useful:

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment. "

"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth living!"

* Voice of the Great - Today - from the 1957 IVU Congress souvenir book"

http://www.ivu.org/history/northam20a/einstein.html



"The latest indications we have suggest that Einstein was vegetarian only for the last year or so of his life, though he appears to have supported the idea for many years before practising it himself.

"So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."

This was from a letter written to Hans Muehsam, and dated March 30, 1954, which was about 1 year before Einstein died. This indicates he adopted a vegetarian diet at the end of his life. Previously, on August3, 1953 Einstein had written the following in a letter to Max Kariel, suggesting that he was still eating meat at that time:

"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
- Einstein Archive 60-058

The above quotes are from: The Expanded Quotable Einstein, collected and edited by Alice Calaprice. The book flap of Ms. Calaprice's book says: "Alice Calaprice is a Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, where she has specialized in the sciences and worked with the Einstein Papers for over twenty years."