"He spoke of the patent office as «a worldly cloister where he hatched his most beautiful ideas»" source: https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/einstein/einstein-at-t

"He spoke of the patent office as «a worldly cloister where he hatched his most beautiful ideas»" source: https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/einstein/einstein-at-the-patent-office.html https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/einstein/einstein-at-the-pate... Take that as you will.