ABSTRACT
About ten years ago I spoke with Einstein about the astonishing fact that so many ministers of various denominations are strongly interested in the theory of relativity. Einstein said that according to his estimation there are more clergymen interested in relativity than physicists. A little puzzled I asked him how he would explain this strange fact. He answered, a little smiling, 'Because clergymen are interested in the general laws of nature and physicists, very often, are not.' Another day we spoke about a certain physicist who had very little success in his research work. Mostly he attacked problems which offered tremendous difficulties. By most of his colleagues he was not rated very highly. Einstein, however, said about him T admire this type of man. I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part and drill a great number of holes where the drilling is easy.'
