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Street felt that most of the large scale atomic theory will still be valid, in much the same way that the physics of Newton was still valid in its limited range, despite Einstein's Theory of Relativity...
Such science fiction is not based wholly on imagination. If Captain Dart gets to the Whirlpool Galaxy while he is still young enough to make a safe blast-down on some hospitable planet, he will thank, in part, Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity...
...kind of rich man's folksiness, the author being supremely sure that every reader will be interested in his views on why it is good to have money, in the family album snapshots of his children and his recollections of the great. At one point Lambert tells the Einstein anecdote in which the Father of Relativity, asked by Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt if he likes yacht-racing, replies: "No, Mr. Vanderbilt, I am not interested in anything like that; it is so obvious that one of them must win." That was never obvious to the Father of Halitosis, who knows...
Last year's lectures were devoted to Woodrow Wilson's career as a political and world leader. Past lecturers include Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, John Foster Dulles, Henry L. Stimson, Thomas E. Dewey, and George F. Kennan...
...family solidarity was the calculated result of a determined intellectual effort to make men look freshly at all they had previously accepted without question. Shaw repeatedly committed that sin against society for which Socrates was condemned to death: he made the worse seem the better part. As Albert Einstein once put it, Shaw had "succeeded in gaining the love and the joyful admiration of mankind by a path which for others has led to martyrdom...