curiosities Albereto

curiosities Albereto

The messy desk Albert Einstein (1955)

Piles of papers, envelopes and half-written formulas. These images of Albert Einstein's desk in his office at Princeton were published by Life magazine in 1955, just months before his death. They can look at a blackboard full of equations, a bunch of old magazines and even his own pipe momentarily on one of the notebooks.



No one pays attention can see what looks like an ink, some books, a copy of a journal of philosophy and even a glass ashtray. Under piles of papers and letters lost pens peek unopened documents that might contain the key to the unified theory, which unsuccessfully spent the last years of his life. In the center of the image is a photograph of what looks like a square, not people. What was I thinking Einstein minutes before the photographer arrived?




On the advantages and disadvantages of having a messy desk treatise ever written, some of whom argue that chaos can be more productive than an order too strict. However, nothing like the quote attributed to Einstein supposed to put things in place: "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what should we think of an empty desk?"

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