"If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
— Albert Einstein

January 1, 1970

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Similarly, in Einstein and the Poet by William Hermanns, p. 86, Einstein is quoted saying the following in a 1948 interview: "If I should be born again, I will become a cobbler and do my thinking in peace."