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I’ve always been captivated by renowned German physicist Albert Einstein. This genius, who created E=MC2 and the theory of relativity, enjoyed music, had a great sense of humor, and, unexpectedly, didn’t think much of money.
I have therefore made the decision to share with you a few intriguing short stories about him that I believe will be both informative and enjoyable. They will also help you understand and appreciate one of the most intelligent persons in history.
In the past, Albert Einstein had a personal driver who took him to all of his lectures. His chauffeur would listen to Einstein’s wise comments from the rear of the auditorium as he spoke. After some time, the driver told the well-known researcher that he had heard the lecture so often that he could probably deliver it himself.
Einstein and the driver traded places at the following lecture stop.Einstein, wearing the driver’s outfit, is seated at the rear of the room. The driver delivered the lecture with precision.
An audience member raised a thorough scientific question regarding a scientific topic at the conclusion of the talk. “Well, the answer to that question is so simple, I’ll let my driver, sitting at the back there, answer it,” the “lecturer” said without missing a beat.
A visitor asked Albert Einstein if he would show him his laboratory while he was staying at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies in his later years.
Grinning, the well-known mathematician and physicist raised his fountain pen and gestured to his head!
Albert Einstein, the legend, didn’t care much about money. He asked for a wage so low when he first started working at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study that administrators had to raise it in order to maintain any semblance of institute standards.
He once lost the book after using a $1,500 check from the Rockefeller Foundation as a bookmark! For months, the foundation’s records were not in order. “What’s this for?” Einstein wrote back when they eventually issued a duplicate check.
Einstein, who considered himself a skilled violinist, was practicing a piece by Haydn with a string quartet.
The cellist for the group looked up, a little irritated, and remarked, “The problem with you, Albert, is that you can’t count,” after Einstein failed to get his entry in the second movement for the fourth time.
The media reportedly requested Einstein to explain his theory of relativity in a way that the average layperson might understand. The scientist then provided his secretary with a statement that said, “A minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour, but an hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute.”
