"Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots"

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Source: In a letter to his cousin and second wife Elsa, during a visit to the University of Oxford, in collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel by Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, as quoted in Einstein in no-sock shock, New Scientist, July 15, 2006.

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Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist known for developing the theory of relativity, which transformed our understanding of space, time, and energy.

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