Rejected when he applied for academic positions, he ultimately found work, in 1902, as a patent examiner in Berne, and there in 1905 his genius burst into fabulous flower.

• 他曾申请一个学术职位，但没有成功，结果于1902年在伯尔尼成为一个专利检验员，1905年他的才智宛如奇葩一样绽放。