Originally Posted by: kingdavidAnd consider a famous dude like Einstein. I'm told he was working in a Library( and he did not have a PhD) when he came up with the theory of relativity. I'm also told that he'd variously described as slow and unteachable( which was why he was working at the Library, instead of, for instance, teaching). But look at what he did. I'm sure relativity is still studied and used in some form even at PhD level, but the dude who came up with it didn't even have that degree to begin with.

He was working at a patent office. No learning happening there, but I'm sure there was plenty of time to think.

Google'll probably tell you how much education he had, but I always thought he was a high school dropout, not a college dropout.