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I don't buy that. Sure there's plenty of eccentric geniuses but I don't think you have to be on the periphery. Albert Einstein, Claude Shannon, and Edwin Hubble

• willcipriano 5y ago
  Now you may have a bad example, here is a except of letter from Albert Einstein to his wife where he outlined the conditions for their relationship: "B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, You will forego: 1. my sitting at home with you; 2. my going out or travelling with you. C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me: 1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way; 2. you will stop talking to me if I request it; 3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it." Further: "Einstein prized his solitude greatly. Another remark shows his difficulty with personal relationships. While he eventually fell in love with his cousin Elsa and finally divorced Mavic to marry her in 1919, that marriage too was troubled. Elsa died in 1936 soon after the couple moved to the U.S. Not long after her death, Einstein would write, “I have gotten used extremely well to life here. I live like a bear in my den…. This bearishness has been further enhanced by the death of my woman comrade, who was better with other people than I am.”[0] I don't argue that their aren't exceptions, but I believe my point is true in the general sense. [0]https://www.openculture.com/2013/12/albert-einstein-imposes-on-his-first-wife-a-cruel-list-of-marital-demands.html https://www.openculture.com/2013/12/albert-einstein-imposes-...