Albert Einstein Quotes on Career

5 quotes

  1. As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents... I congratulate you on the great successes of your life's work.

  2. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

  3. Working on the final formulation of technological patents was a veritable blessing for me. It enforced many-sided thinking and also provided important stimuli to physical thought. [Academia] places a young person under a kind of compulsion to produce impressive quantities of scientific publications - a temptation to superficiality.

  4. If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  5. The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

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