CLASS 9
A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND
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He learned how to create new things.
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He saw new ideas of others and revised them.
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He met people who helped him solve his problems.
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He had the freedom to work on his own ideas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Einstein called his desk drawer at the patent office the ‘Bureau of theoretical physics’ as he was developing his own ideas in secret by storing them in his desk drawer and thus, it had all the evidence which could reveal the secret.
Detailed explanation-2: -Einstein described the patent office as his ‘worldly cloister’, where he ‘hatched [his] most beautiful ideas’. Many historians speculate that the numerous patents Einstein analysed, relating to the electro-mechanical synchronisation of time, triggered his famously powerful thought experiments in special relativity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Einstein called his desk drawer at the patent office the ‘bureau of theoretical physics’. Einstein was actually developing his own ideas in secret and his drawer had all the evidences which could reveal the secret.
Detailed explanation-4: -After two frustrating years of job hunting, Einstein moved to Bern to work as a clerk in the Swiss patent office. Working six days a week as a patent clerk, Einstein could barely find any time to develop his scientific ideas, and would eventually give up on a career in physics.
Detailed explanation-5: -In June of 1902, Einstein was offered a job as a technical expert (third class) at the Bern Patent Office.