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Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes

The Joy of x

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The Careerist, You Know, Einstein Was Not a Careerist.

There's a certain courage involved, isn't there? T tesa sort of pursuit. And again, the careerist, you know, einstein was not a careerist. No, he he was, as you said, not a great student because he was lost in other thoughts. His wasn't doing well when he was hoping to get a job after graduate school and he was working as a clerk in a patent office. These are not careerist people, the people who are pursuing ideas above all else.

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