In Washington, D.C., just a few blocks away from the Lincoln Memorial is the National Academy of Sciences building. Located in a small grove nearby is this touching Memorial to Albert Einstein. If I lived in or near Washington, I think this would be one of my favorite spots to sit and think. Even though you're only a few blocks away from a very busy street, you feel as if you're very secluded.
The statue is sitting on a stone bench, which is inscribed with three powerful quotes by Albert Einstein:
On the ground beneath the bench is a circular region that is a celestial map, with metal studs indicating the positions in the sky of various planets and stars.As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion ...
The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.