Einstein was accustomed to isolation. He had changed the world in 1905 working alone in a Swiss patent office and continued that habit for the rest of his life. Einstein once said he went through life as a “one-horse cart”; he rarely collaborated with other physicists and almost never took on students of his own. He was eternally suspicious of the status quo, both scientifically and elsewhere; he characterized common sense as the collection of prejudices accumulated by the age of eighteen
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