I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

— Albert Einstein, Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1918)

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=G_iziBAPXtEC&pg=PA5

From a letter to Heinrich Zangger, ca. August 1918.

Topics: creativity