Hermann Minkowski Quote

It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.


as quoted in a conversation with Max Born about the development of the theory of relativity, by Carl Seelig, Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography (1956)


It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.

It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.

It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.

It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.