Well, those were primitive times, so we'll have to excuse his silly notion.“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs,” Einstein was once quoted as saying in 1950.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-albert-einstein-genius-theory-relativity-loved-pipe-180954991/
Yes, my point exactly.I think the esteemed scientist would have acknowledged ... it's the nicotine.
You get Nicotine from Vulcanite?I think the esteemed scientist would have acknowledged ... it's the nicotine.
“He enjoyed smoking,” Sherman says. “But at one point his doctor told him to give it up, so he did. But he didn’t give up on the pipes themselves and he would fairly often stick an empty one in his mouth and just chew on it.
Einstein, eccentric genius, smoked butts picked up off street
His two prized possessions were his violin and his pipe, and his reliance on the latter "bordered on dependency". When forbidden from smoking by his doctor he would sneak out and collect cigarette "dog-ends" from the street to fill his pipe.
"It's a rather sad anecdote," said Peter Smith, the author of the biography Einstein.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1502358/Einstein-eccentric-genius-smoked-butts-picked-up-off-street.html
In the letter, filed away and forgotten for seven years, the grandson recalled receiving a baffling three-hour lecture from Einstein on the mathematical properties of soap bubbles. He was aged eight at the time. The lecture was delivered while the two were alone on a becalmed sailing boat. Einstein, his grandson recalled, deliberately went out sailing when there was no wind because he felt it was more challenging.
"While at Knollwood [in America] my grandfather and I frequently went sailing together," Mr Einstein told Françoise Wolff, a Belgian documentary maker, in the letter.
"He usually said very little to me during those outings but on one particular afternoon, one on which there was practically no wind, he became talkative.
"He liked the calm and claimed that calm was the highest challenge to the sailor. We went no further than about a kilometre in the three hours we were out. My grandfather talked continuously about soap bubbles, and of course in mathematical terms. I did not understand a word of what he said."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1502358/Einstein-eccentric-genius-smoked-butts-picked-up-off-street.html
Yeah that does make sense.It is true. You can tell who really knows how to sail a boat when the winds are light.