the part in his story that gets me is how much time and progress was wasted by the pinheads holding the pursestrings who kept rejecting his applications for funding because THEY couldn’t understand it. Einstein would have never had a chance with these federal stuck on stupid yutzes.
Which goes to the heart of the argument for government money in basic research. Wouldn’t we be better off if the wealthy funded this research? At least you’d have some objective as opposed to being rewarded whether or not the research pays off.