Correct quote:
"For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -Einstein, The Expanded Quotable Einstein. Calaprice, Alice, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). p. 75.
To expand a bit:
"If, then, it is true that the axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented, can we ever hope to find the right way? Nay, more, has this right way any existence outside illusions? ...I answer without hesitation that there is, in my opinion, a right way, and that we are capable of finding it. ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed." -Einstein, Ideas and Opinions. (New York: Crown Publishers, 1954). p. 274.
And a logical syllogism to boot:
Everyone loves a little ass;
No one loves a smart ass;
I am a smart ass.
therefore:
No one loves me.
