Oh, for sure, but I mean in the Greatest Hits version of scientific history which is all most people ever know (if they even know that), it'll be the tongue photo which encapsulates and stands for 'Einstein - quite a dude'. (My personal favourite is the story where his name is known but his image as yet is not, and he's so bored of giving the talk, and his driver is so familiar with it from sitting in, that one evening they decide to swap. The chauffeur can even answer most of the questions after, because they're usually the same, except he does get one he doesn't know. So he looks ultra-bored, points at the real Einstein and says "That question is so simple, I'm going to let my driver answer it". I don't even know whether this is apocryphal, but it really doesn't matter, because what's important is that Einstein is someone of whom it *could* be true)
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Date: 2009-11-16 12:16 pm (UTC)(My personal favourite is the story where his name is known but his image as yet is not, and he's so bored of giving the talk, and his driver is so familiar with it from sitting in, that one evening they decide to swap. The chauffeur can even answer most of the questions after, because they're usually the same, except he does get one he doesn't know. So he looks ultra-bored, points at the real Einstein and says "That question is so simple, I'm going to let my driver answer it".
I don't even know whether this is apocryphal, but it really doesn't matter, because what's important is that Einstein is someone of whom it *could* be true)