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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
Two events which, viewed from a system of coordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relative to that system.
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
His theory indicated that the universe would have to be either expanding or contracting, not staying static. According to his field equations, a static universe was impossible because the gravitational forces would pull all the matter together.
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter.
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
Yet for all of his popular appeal and surface accessibility, Einstein also came to symbolize the perception that modern physics was something that ordinary laymen could not comprehend, "the province of priest-like experts," in the words of Harvard professor Dudley Herschbach.3 It was not always thus. Galileo and Newton were both great geniuses, but their mechanical cause-and-effect explanation of the world was something that most thoughtful folks could grasp. In the eighteenth century of Benjamin
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
Long live impudence!
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life. In addition, an appreciation for the glories of science is a joyful trait for a good society. It helps us remain in touch with that childlike capacity for wonder, about such ordinary things as falling apples and elevators, that characterizes Einstein and other great theoretical physicists.4
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity. He could construct complex equations, but more important, he knew that math is the language nature uses to describe her wonders. So he could visualize how equations were reflected in realities-how the electromagnetic field equations discovered by James Clerk Maxwell, for example, would manifest themselves to a boy riding alongside a light beam. As he once declared, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."6
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet.
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Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and
my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.
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