"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs," said Albert Einstein, whose pipe is apparently one of the most popular artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
"He enjoyed smoking," says Roger Sherman, the Smithsonian's associate curator for the modern physics collection. "But at one point his doctor told him to give it up, so he did. But he didn't give up on the pipes themselves and he would fairly often stick an empty one in his mouth and just chew on it. And in fact we have evidence of that, because the pipe that we have is partly chewed through. He definitely used it in one way or another."
Why Albert Einstein, the Genius Behind the Theory of Relativity, Loved His Pipe (Smithsonian)
