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Einstein Unveiled
John_Renne writes "One of the most well known scientists in the near history is Albert Einstein. Pictures of him can be found on allmost everything varying from lunchboxes to t-shirts and cartoons. On the other hand there's little knowledge of who Einstein really was and the human being behind the genius. This article tries to create a view of the inner Einstein. A nice read for everyone interested in the person inside the phenomenon."
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On the other hand there's little knowledge of who Einstein really was and the human being behind the genius
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You mean, aside from all the biographys written about him, the published letters to his children, the secret FBI file kept about him, etc etc.
BN returns rather a lot on the man, and a number of these items are not lunchboxes.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/resul
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
splitting beer atoms to make fizzy beer? You have to admire anyone who wants to make better beer. Oh, wait, that was just a movie. History, pop-culture, same difference. :-)
"Da ist ein Technölüst in mein Unterpanten!"
"Einstein said that he thought in images and even muscular sensations," says John Stachel, a physicist and the founding editor of the Papers Project. "The hardest part for him was to translate his findings back into language that others could understand."
Sounds like the good man was addicted to drugs. And yes, I can image it is really hard to translate an LSD trip into language others can understand. However a real artist will be able to do so.
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"His life projects high achievement and a hope for a sane future for humanity..." I really wonder what Einstein would say today about mankind and its future, Hey Taco, how about borrowing that time machine from Celebrity Death Match and bringing him here for an exclusive /. ten question interview?
Is is any wonder the poor guy has been reduced to being an advertising shill for everything in sight?
Darwin liked turtles
Newton liked apples
Bohr liked bees
Freud liked his mother
This book is far better than the lesser known "Einstien Undressed", although there's more words, fewer pictures.
Freud liked his mother
Not really. He just liked the cigars she smoked.
Personally, my favorite Einstein quote is:
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
ah... so true.
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Where are all the privacy activists? I guess we all only care about our own privacy huh.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves...
I resent this remark. I did at least five incredibly stupid things just yesterday. All of them were readily apparent to the most casual observer.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
My grandpa wrote Einstein a while back. Grandpa was leading a Great Books discussion on something of Einsteins, and he asked for a clarification of one of the problems in the book. Einstein wrote back. It's in English, which means he either dictated it, or someone translated it for him, since he didn't write in English.
Either way, we're pretty sure he was wrong... hehe. Makes me happy every time I think about it.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Einstein never bothered to remember his own phone number, reasoning that he seldom needed to call himself. On rare occasions when he did, it was something he could look up.
As a student in a co-op education program, I move every four months, so I can't remember my phone number either. It's nice to know I have something in common with Einstein. (Yes, I study physics too, but I'm not going to flatter myself.)
With regard to famous mathematicians and physicists forgetting where they live, this joke has been told about many scientists.
A quick survey of the web shows that Scientist X is usually mathematician Norbert Weiner, though a number of others are cited less frequently.~Idarubicin
Einstein: God does not play dice.
Bohr: Don't tell God what to do!
Einstein was a patent clerk when he published many of his greatest papers
No wonder the current patent clerks are such idiots: God accidentally assigned all the brains to a *single* clerk. Probably forgot to increment an index pointer or something when dolling out the smarts to future patent clerks.
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However, the noble prize is not awarded posthumorously.
Scientific aspirants beware! Telling a joke can cost you your Nobel prize!
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"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. Now that's relativity!"
For many geeks these two experiences are nearly indistinquishable.
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