5 Albert Einstein Quotes on Career

Albert Einstein quotes on career

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

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

59. 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.

65. 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.

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