Albert Einstein: The Human Side
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691082316 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 167 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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These varied, penetrating, warm and open remarks to queens and schoolchildren, friends and antagonists, philosophers and sophomores have been sensitively chosen by two old friends of Einstein's and well translated. By a series of quotations from letters, jottings and unpublished documents, for example, Dukas and Hoffmann demonstrate as clearly as anybody could expect that Einstein was a courteous, kindly, witty, fearless and lonely man. "This book presents itself in such a modest and loving tone that it is fitting for the memory of the man it lets us hear. It is a bedside book."--Washington Post Book World. It is a fresh and delicious little anthology of citations from the body of Einstein's letters, journal entries and other written comment. The German originals are included."<
Witty rhymes, and exchange about fine music with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, and expressions of his devotion to Zionism are but some of the highlights found in this rare, warm enriching book.. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker, who asked whether he believed in a personal God. Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the Einstein archives
ssor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University.Yehuda Elkana is rector and president of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Gerhard Sonnert is a sociologist of science in the DepartmenGerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Profet of Physics at Harvard University. El
"The Poop on Einstein" according to Reader One. This book is an excellent introduction to Einstein - if one happens to be a theoretical physicist with an IQ of 186. In other words, this book is abstruse in the extreme. The essays describing Einstein's theories depend heavily on formulas and equations. This begs the question, "so what is the book for?" Other sections of