![]() 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.” The Toledo Blade recently stated that you said, “If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or a teacher. The Albert Einstein Archives at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Very soon those words were in print, and it didn’t take long for a flush of plumbers 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. 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. Instead of trying to analyze the problem I may express my feeling in a short remark: ![]() ![]() You have asked me what I thought about your articles concerning the situation of the scientists in America. In his response to The Reporter he wrote: On 13th October of that year, Einstein had replied to a letter from the editor of The Reporter in which the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist was asked to comment on the hostile treatment of intellectuals during the McCarthy era, about which Einstein had already been vocal. From across the land came letters from plumbers. Einstein with a different kind of pipe, 1933 (Photo: Getty)Īlbert Einstein received an influx of mail at the end of 1954-a flurry of correspondence from a source you wouldn’t necessarily expect. ![]()
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