Time And Time Quotes



The Germans were very ambivalent about Einstein. Although he was already recognized by the world as one of the greatest physicists of all time, he had never been recognized by the German academic establishment. He had been rejected by their universities as a faculty member and was a clerk in the Swiss patent office when he developed his Theory of Relativity. The Germans, then traditionally world scientific leaders, were proud that the greatest physicist was a German, but the fact that he was Jewish stuck in the craw of the developing anti-Semitic government and many Germans.