More of his quotes He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. another one Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.