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Einstein's PhonebookWhen one of Albert Einstein's colleagues asked the eminent physicist for his telephone number one day, he reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, understandably startled. "No," Einstein replied with a shrug. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"
[Though this story is likely apocryphal, Einstein did claim never to memorize anything which could be looked up in less than two minutes.]
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (Physics, 1921) [noted for his revolutionary special (1905) and general (1915) theories of relativity which revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed the theoretical basis for the production of atomic energy]
[Sources: Leonard & Thelma Spinrad, Speakers Lifetime Library]More Albert Einstein anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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