Einstein and being a non-conformist

In his Wired magazine article The World Needs More Rebels Like Einstein, Walter Isaacson notes that "Einstein alone was impertinent enough to discard the notion of absolute time, one of the sacred tenets of classical physics since Newton.

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." Albert Einstein

That quote affirms one of the main values of non-conforming. It is in the book by Neuropsychologist David Weeks - Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness, and Weeks lists as other eccentrics William Blake, Alexander Graham Bell, Emily Dickinson, Charlie Chaplin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Howard Hughes.

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