Caption:
Albert Einstein (1879--1955) with
friends
Conrad Habicht (1876--1958)
(left)
and
Maurice Solovine (1875--1958)
(center), circa
1903.
The Olympian Academy.
In my youth,
I despised all authority---and
I've been punished for it by having
been turned into an authority myself.
----Einstein, quoted from memory.
Like a lot of folks, the
Lonely Mountain
probably said roughly the same thing several times,
and probably mostly in German
which requires a translation,
and so
this quote probably appears in different versions.
Einstein was a very quotable
person, but, in fact, many quotes attributed to him seem to be misquotes or evern made up.
See Wikiquote:
Albert Einstein (1879--1955),
Wikiquote:
Albert Einstein (1879--1955): Disputed,
and
Wikiquote:
Albert Einstein (1879--1955): Misattributed.
Is yours truly's
quote a fiction.
Yours truly read something like it somewhere, but it's
NOT at
Wikiquote:
Albert Einstein (1879--1955).
Maybe Einstein would agree with it
even if he didn't say it.
Credit/Permission:
Emil Vollenweider (fl.1900)
and Son,
Bern,
Switzerland,
1903 /
Public domain.
Image link: Wikipedia:
File:Einstein-with-habicht-and-solovine.jpg.
Local file: local link: einstein_olympian.html.
File: Einstein file:
einstein_olympian.html.
