2007-08-04 06:10:07 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Mathematics wasn't a money career back in his days. Many were broke, living in normal apartments below middle-class standards unless a university offered them housing. They weren't paid major salaries, and the knowledge career track isn't really one of those, do it to make money career tracks. It's more for advancing the greater good, or it was. Now things are different, but back then, just because he was honored and well known, doesn't mean he had a lot of money. The meaning of famous changed.
2007-08-04 06:49:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think Einstein was poor? For most of his life he was comfortably well off.
Yes, he wasn't a mega-millionaire but then again he wasn't into materialism. When Princeton offered him $20,000 a year to teach (a salary equivalent of over $350,000 today) Einstein asked to have it reduced. He felt money got in the way of his work and his work was far more important than making money.
He lived the life he wanted, and he was famous and beloved enough that he didn't need the money. There are some people that find money a pain in the neck and are quite happy as long as their basic needs are met.
2007-08-04 06:29:30 · answer #2 · answered by brianjames04 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ahh. You equate smartness with greed. The smartest man will be smart enough to outwit his fellow man of his money?
EInstein was more than likely a bigger man than that.Money and the proverbial gold is the quest of a small man, and he was challenged by other things. Heck he didnt even seek out fame and glory and all those fleeting things.
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2007-08-04 06:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I had a nickel for everytime someone asked a question about twilight on yahoo answers I would be stinkin rich!?
2016-05-17 23:58:15 · answer #4 · answered by esperanza 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Albert Einstein believes in his idea that no matter how wealthy a person is, for him he doesn't care. What is essential for him is to know and have a meaningful life and to know the life of other creatures. That for him counts because if a person think otherwise that person is unhappy and not fit to live.
2007-08-04 06:33:07 · answer #5 · answered by Third P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One does not have to be rich in order to be smart. Money does not mean everything. Your life style and your inner emotions are important.
Anyway Einstein was not poor.
2007-08-04 06:23:49 · answer #6 · answered by Lady 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably because Albert Einstein suffered from shizophrenia. He was not the easiest student , nor a social butterfly. People with Autism quite often are gifted with mathematical genius.
"When God closes a door, He opens a window."
2007-08-04 06:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by D L R 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
His wealth was his being.
No amount of money can equal
the wealth of his contribution.
Was he rich? Yes, he will travel
down the roads of history
far longer than any amount
of financial currency may exist.
2007-08-04 06:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by cockroachdavis 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was well enough off. In his final years he pretty much did no teaching and was just a figurehead and Princeton put him up in a house with a salary.
Besides, many intellectuals aren't money hungry...they're more interested in their field of study.
2007-08-04 06:14:00 · answer #9 · answered by christine_ 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Because he wasn't so smart.
Einstein was a brilliant physicist and nothing else. Einstein was not a genius. Einstein possessed a normal high average I.Q. of 120 like any college kid today. He wasn't very good at math and he consulted extensively with some of the best mathematicians of his day.
When Einstein finally started to make a decent income late in life, he hired a financial management group to invest for him. All of Einstein's talents lied in physics, not finance. Two different subjects.
2007-08-04 06:18:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋