"It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all."
— Hermann Minkowski

January 1, 1970

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as quoted in a conversation with Max Born about the development of the theory of relativity, by Carl Seelig, Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography (1956)