Samuel Graydon > Quotes

“The Israelites among scholars are ascribed (in numerous cases not entirely without cause) all kinds of unpleasant peculiarities of character, such as intrusiveness, impudence and a shopkeeper’s mentality in the perception of their academic position. It should be said, however, that also among the Israelites there exist men who do not exhibit a trace of these disagreeable qualities, and that it is not proper, therefore, to disqualify a man only because he happens to be a Jew… Therefore, neither the committee nor the faculty as a whole considered it compatible with its dignity to adopt anti-Semitism as a matter of policy.”
― Samuel Graydon, Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

“Eventually, the offer was increased and accepted. In 1909, Albert Einstein, finally, became a professor. “So,” as he put it to a colleague, “now I too am an official member of the guild of whores.”
― Samuel Graydon, Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

“he complained that since mathematicians had started bothering themselves with his theory, “I do not understand it myself anymore.”
― Samuel Graydon, Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles