Einstein's note with happiness theory sold for 1.56 mln USD
                 Source: Xinhua | 2017-10-25 22:22:23 | Editor: huaxia

A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happiness has been sold at auction for 1.56 million U.S. dollars.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happiness sold at auction here Tuesday for 1.56 million U.S. dollars.

The note, which has surfaced after 95 years, says in German that "a quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest."

The buyer of the note was a European, according to the Jerusalem-based Winner's Auction.

Sources say that the note, on the stationary of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, was written in 1922 by the German-born physicist who was famous for his theory of relativity, when he was on a lecture tour in Japan.

A second note written by Einstein at the same time on a blank piece of paper that simply reads "where there's a will, there's a way" was sold at a price of 240,000 U.S. dollars, said the auction.

It is impossible to determine if the notes were a reflection of Einstein's own musings on his growing fame, but this is a stone in the mosaic, Israeli media "Times of Israel" quoted Roni Grosz, the archivist in charge of the world's largest Einstein collection, at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, as saying.

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Einstein's note with happiness theory sold for 1.56 mln USD

Source: Xinhua 2017-10-25 22:22:23

A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happiness has been sold at auction for 1.56 million U.S. dollars.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happiness sold at auction here Tuesday for 1.56 million U.S. dollars.

The note, which has surfaced after 95 years, says in German that "a quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest."

The buyer of the note was a European, according to the Jerusalem-based Winner's Auction.

Sources say that the note, on the stationary of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, was written in 1922 by the German-born physicist who was famous for his theory of relativity, when he was on a lecture tour in Japan.

A second note written by Einstein at the same time on a blank piece of paper that simply reads "where there's a will, there's a way" was sold at a price of 240,000 U.S. dollars, said the auction.

It is impossible to determine if the notes were a reflection of Einstein's own musings on his growing fame, but this is a stone in the mosaic, Israeli media "Times of Israel" quoted Roni Grosz, the archivist in charge of the world's largest Einstein collection, at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, as saying.

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