Albert Einstein was probably the smartest person recorded in time that ever lived and yet he had a miserable life. What makes people like him continue their research? Would you consider this a life worth living for?
2007-01-09 02:12:16 · 5 answers · asked by popular_bond 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
he was given a parade ! what are you talking about ? ( seriously he was highly respected in his lifetime -now his early work received a lot of derision which always happens when you go up against 'established' principles in any field )
2007-01-09 02:17:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a bit of an unfair question, actually. Albert Einstein was higly intelligent yes, and he did create quite a few things that we are still having trouble understanding. So why wasn't he famous? He didn't want fame.
For him and many others, it isn't the fame and fortune that comes from their discoveries that keeps them going. Honestly, unless the discovery has a practical application, they wouldn't get it anyways, due to the narrow fields that they operate in. Happily, it is the challenge, the discovery, the work itself that they desire.
Not to say that there are those that don't crave the attention, but at that level, it isn't our attention they crave, but those of their peers. Dogs love people, but they don't understand us, so their opinion is nice but doesn't really matter. We enjoy the benefits of scientitsts, but since we rarely understand their jargon, our opinion is nice but doesn't matter. Thats nice...but when a peer, someone in the field, and as smart as the person, is forced to admit that the person has created something wonderous, better then they could...thats what they want. Happily, these people aren't that common.
As for why they have a miserable life...in his opinion, and his perceptions, Einstein apparently didn't feel his life was all too bad, with perhaps the exception of helping make the atomic bomb. Perceptions are different.
2007-01-09 02:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by Fierybird 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The disrespect arises mainly from other people's inability or unwillingness to comprehend ideas and concepts that would appear "radical" at that particular era. In spite of this, geniuses still continue to work on their research mainly because of the characteristics which compel them to be geniuses in the first place, such as curiosity and the appetite for information.
2007-01-09 02:36:44 · answer #3 · answered by painkiller 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a genius and people respect me, although some are jealous.
2007-01-09 08:31:46 · answer #4 · answered by Todd H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes people don't know how to apply new ideas for a long time.
2007-01-09 02:27:37 · answer #5 · answered by yodakelbell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋