<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Aaand best ever.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Letters of Note <lettersofnote@substack.com><br><b>Date:</b> May 12, 2023 at 2:14:22 PM AST<br><b>To:</b> haroldclements@mac.com<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>I would rather choose to be a plumber</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Letters of Note <reply+1yw1sh&cjpip&&7852d3d04590a7a411e73e50c8d4d7df5349c3e1cd208e57639bed71a3f41321@mg1.substack.com><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta charset="utf-8"><title>I would rather choose to be a plumber</title><style>.typography .markup div.youtube-inner div.youtube-screen, .typography.editor .markup div.youtube-inner div.youtube-screen, .typography .markup div.vimeo-inner div.youtube-screen, .typography.editor .markup div.vimeo-inner div.youtube-screen { display: none !important; }
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border: none !important; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle; width: auto !important;" data-unique-identifier=""></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><figcaption class="image-caption" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #808080; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -.15px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 15%; padding-right: 15%; text-align: center; width: 70%;">Einstein with a different kind of pipe, 1933 (Photo: Getty)</figcaption></figure></div><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Albert Einstein received an influx of mail at the end of 1954\u2014a flurry of correspondence from a source you wouldn\u2019t necessarily expect. From across the land came letters from plumbers. </p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>On 13th October of that year, Einstein had replied to a letter from the editor of </span><em>The Reporter</em><span> in which the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist was asked to comment on the hostile treatment of intellectuals during the McCarthy era, about which Einstein had </span><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/46a9dc1e-6305-4e92-9213-21cddab2e0a7?j=eyJ1IjoiY2pwaXAifQ._1QBv3Tg0Y4OxSWnEW0_SB0JSb7TeODIWTTN-CgHuAg" rel="" style="color: #ff6b00; text-decoration: none;">already been vocal</a><span>. In his response to </span><em>The Reporter</em><span> he wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid #ff6b00; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;"><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">You have asked me what I thought about your articles concerning the situation of the scientists in America. Instead of trying to analyze the problem I may express my feeling in a short remark:</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. </p></blockquote><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Very soon those words were in print, and it didn\u2019t take long for a flush of plumbers</span><span class="footnote-anchor-email" style="font-size: 20px;">¹</span><span> to begin sending letters, and on a few occasions plumbing tools, to the world\u2019s most famous scientist. He was also given honorary membership to a plumbers\u2019 union, who sent him a working card and addressed him as a \u201cbrother\u201d in a letter welcoming him to the fold. I like to imagine he put the tools to good use. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Below are just two of the letters he received. </p><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><hr style="background: #e0e0e0; border: none; height: 1px; margin: 32px 0; padding: 0;"></div><div class="captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><figure style="margin: 0 auto; width: 100%;"><table class="image-wrapper" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="mso-padding-alt: 1em 0 1.6em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" class="content" width="1086" style="text-align: center;"><a class="image-link" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/95cb3bbe-7908-4f87-8066-6a58fcca6157?j=eyJ1IjoiY2pwaXAifQ._1QBv3Tg0Y4OxSWnEW0_SB0JSb7TeODIWTTN-CgHuAg" rel="" style="align-items: center; border: none; display: block; flex-direction: column; height: auto; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; text-decoration: none; width: auto;"><img data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/32b5e656-2b8a-480f-b510-02824d37be75_1086x1328.png","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1328,"width":1086,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2666966,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"internalRedirect":null}" alt="" width="550" height="672.5598526703499" class="wide-image" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2172,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32b5e656-2b8a-480f-b510-02824d37be75_1086x1328.png" style="-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; border: none !important; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle; width: auto !important;" data-unique-identifier=""></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><figcaption class="image-caption" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #808080; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -.15px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 15%; padding-right: 15%; text-align: center; width: 70%;">The Albert Einstein Archives at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</figcaption></figure></div><blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid #ff6b00; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;"><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">STANLEY PLUMBING & HEATING CO.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">November 11, 1954</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Dr. Albert Einstein</span><br><span>Princeton University</span><br><span>Princeton, New Jersey</span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">Dear Dr. Einstein:</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">As a plumber I am very much interested in your comment made in the letter being published in the Reporter Magazine. Since my ambition has always been to be a scholar and yours seems to be a plumber, I suggest that as a team we would be tremendously successful.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">We can then be possessed of both knowledge and independence.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">I am ready to change the name of my firm to read: Einstein and Stanley Plumbing Co.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Respectfully yours,</span><br><span>R. Stanley Murray</span></p></blockquote><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><hr style="background: #e0e0e0; border: none; height: 1px; margin: 32px 0; padding: 0;"></div><div class="captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><figure style="margin: 0 auto; width: 100%;"><table class="image-wrapper" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="mso-padding-alt: 1em 0 1.6em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" class="content" width="800" style="text-align: center;"><a class="image-link" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/db5e1ea1-6fb5-46ba-945e-054c67aed68c?j=eyJ1IjoiY2pwaXAifQ._1QBv3Tg0Y4OxSWnEW0_SB0JSb7TeODIWTTN-CgHuAg" rel="" style="align-items: center; border: none; display: block; flex-direction: column; height: auto; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; text-decoration: none; width: auto;"><img data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/606a2cf7-2028-430a-89b2-ad8224b6b100_800x783.jpeg","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":783,"width":800,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":92894,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"internalRedirect":null}" alt="" width="550" height="538.3125" class="wide-image" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F606a2cf7-2028-430a-89b2-ad8224b6b100_800x783.jpeg" style="-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; border: none !important; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 0; max-width: 100% !important; vertical-align: middle; width: auto !important;" data-unique-identifier=""></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><figcaption class="image-caption" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #808080; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -.15px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 15%; padding-right: 15%; text-align: center; width: 70%;">The Albert Einstein Archives at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</figcaption></figure></div><blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid #ff6b00; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;"><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">TOLEDO PIPE THREADING MACHINE CO.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Dr. Albert Einstein</span><br><span>Princeton, New Jersey</span></p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">Dear Dr. Einstein:</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">The Toledo Blade recently stated that you said, \u201cIf I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or a teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.\u201d</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">You have achieved leadership with outstanding success in the first three vocations, and the third you mentioned - a plumber - is also an honorable profession.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">Therefore, this Company, builders of fine plumbers pipe tools for over 50 years, is indeed glad to send you with our compliments a set of genuine \u201cTOLEDO\u201d plumbers pipe tools.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">They are so easy to operate that we are sure you will enjoy using them on any little piping jobs you may have about your home.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">They should serve you well for many years.</p><p style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Yours most sincerely,</span><br><span>H. 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