Einstein prioritized equations over political roles.
Evidence
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. — Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 348
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 348
- XREF: connects to: Mathematics spans from before Pythagoras to beyond Einstein — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 154
Related
- Einstein’s political actions often led to unpopularity among peers. (similarity 0.79)