Science Quote by Albert Einstein

Einstein is doing two things at once here: accepting praise and quietly sabotaging the idea that praise should domesticate him. The sentence wears the formal tuxedo of gratitude ("great pleasure indeed") while smuggling in a wink at respectability. He doesn’t just call himself a nonconformist; he calls himself an "incorrigible" one, the word you use for a repeat offender. Stubbornness becomes not a flaw to be corrected but a signature to be applauded, which flips the normal social script: conformity is usually rewarded, nonconformity merely tolerated until it becomes inconvenient.

The subtext is a polite provocation aimed at institutions that love rebels in hindsight. Academies, committees, newspapers, even nations like to celebrate the iconoclast once the iconoclasm has been converted into a safe brand. Einstein’s phrasing refuses that conversion. If you acclaim me, he implies, you’re acclaiming the very trait that will make me difficult tomorrow. Warm applause, in other words, doesn’t neutralize dissent; it accidentally endorses it.

Context matters because Einstein’s public persona was already a paradox: the world’s most famous scientist, also a skeptical critic of nationalism, militarism, and intellectual herd behavior. He understood how quickly society turns the disruptive thinker into a mascot. This line is his way of keeping the edges sharp. He accepts the flowers, then reminds you he’s still the kind of person who won’t march in your parade.