A letter written by Albert Einstein to Marie Curie sparks wisdom that can still be used today.
According to The Inquisitr, a project by the Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has allowed Einstein’s letters to be put on display on the Internet. Both institutions have had the documents since 1986 and there are over 80,000 writings from the brilliant scientist, including one to Marie Curie.
In 1911, Marie was rejected for a spot at the French Academy of Sciences. There was a lot of controversy in Curie’s life at the time, including her affair with a physicist after she was widowed, which at the time, was not socially acceptable. So of course, add that to being a woman before voting was even possible and it’s a given why this injustice befell her.
Einstein wrote her a letter, in which he said, “If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.” In essence, he was telling her to ignore the haters.
Jezebel reported that in the same year she was faced with that rejection, she won the Nobel Prize for a second time.