Albert Einstein
He was the ultimate absent-minded genius. With his wild hair and even wilder ideas, he had the soul of a philosopher trapped in a physicist’s room. Equal parts playful and profound, he’d drop world-changing equations like E=mc² one moment and play the violin the next.
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"Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing."
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Einstein entered ETH Zurich and graduated from it in four years being a stateless person.
He renounced the citizenship of German Kingdom of Württemberg as soon as he graduated from high school and managed to obtain his Swiss passport almost a year after the graduation from ETH Zurich.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the entire world."
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"Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
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It's like a Q&A session which makes you even more curious. #creativity
What image arises in your mind when you think about Albert Einstein? Is he a white-haired old scientist with sad eyes deep in his thoughts? Or is he a joyful senior man with his tongue stuck out? Does he have a smoking pipe in his mouth or a violin in his hands?
The image of Einstein is now absolutely iconic (and he deserves it!), but let’s think about the times when he was a fresh graduate with no job, no money. He had nothing extraordinary to boast of and make a potential employer curious about.
Albert was 21, and his CV would basically include the following:
- the son of German parents
- moved to Switzerland at the age of 16, currently based in Zurich
- graduated from Zurich University, Diploma in Mathematics and Physics
- preferred vacancies: professor’s assistant or similar, academia-related, permanent employment
Einstein’s fellow students were accepted as assistants to their former professors right after graduation. Einstein was ignored as a candidate for...
