Word: einstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lema has swallowed," Sanders admits. "Einstein said you could get along on four hours of sleep a night. Practically all my life I've tried to prove you can do it on three...
...would be equally silly to say that we shouldn't show Sergei Einstein's Potempkin on the grounds that it idealiezs a Socialist rebellion," Mrs. Pratt added...
Baeck, who died nine years ago, is revered as a saint of modern Judaism, and as one of the last towering figures of the German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism...
...Einstein shared Loeb's conviction that scientific truths illuminate some real world, and were not merely postulates of convenience. Yet Einstein's own work, like Loeb's contributed to the overthrow of that position. In 1927, the physicist Percy Bridgman questioned how it was possible that Newtonian theory, which had been accepted throughout the nineteenth century, could be overthrown. He answered, in brief, that Einstein had replaced Newton's absolute concepts--absolute space, absolute motion, absolute time--with concepts defined in terms of particular observers, such as time and length relative to an observer. The truth arrived at by these...
...award recognizes work done in 1960, before Pound began obtaining data 10 per cent below that predicted by Einstein. Had these figures been correct, they would have cast doubt on the validity of the relativity theory. But Pound eliminated the discrepancy by refining his equipment, and confirmed the equivalency principle with increased accuracy--to within 0.0003 per cent of predictions...