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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
BTW, this is an interesting quote, maybe even on topic  I looked around, and some webpages say it is unsourced, others say it appears in Carl Seelig's book Albert Einstein. Does anybody know the context in that book, if it does appear there? |
I'm afraid I'm in the same boat as you. I've heard it said that he said it and seen it quoted on numerous websites, but have been unable to pinpoint a definative source.
I've also heard that he used to walk around with a mathematician, and when forming his ideas out-loud he would look to him to see if they were okay as far as the mathematics went.
But, I feel, like all great people that come and go, we are left with a string of quotes and stories that may or may not be entirely factual in their origins. Gone a bit quantum there!
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is another who has hundreds of quotes attributed to him, but some are no doubt not entirely true.
Then again, to generate such an interest in what they did or did not say must - I hope - show they had something worth saying in the first place.