“In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.