Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good sense responsibility must as always rest with the Editors, there is one point which will surely arouse in the whole scientific community, and in men of learning everywhere, so profound a revulsion that I cannot pass it in silence. That has to do with the evaluation of Einstein, and of his place in science, which no time, no age, and no frivolity can alter, and of the debt that we owe, and that all who follow us will owe, to him. It would seem that the issue goes beyond that of good taste, that it touches on an appreciation...
...TIME reveres Einstein perhaps as much as Reader Oppenheimer does, would be the last to belittle the great physicist for no longer being able to keep up with a conversation which he alone was able to start...
...calm Sunday morning in Princeton, N.J. and the door of the red brick building was securely locked. Two college boys rattled the knob and shouted: "Einstein! We want Einstein!" Pausing on her way to church, a lady inquired what the matter was. The boys explained: they were fraternity pledges at Bucknell University who had been dumped out the night before on a lonely road 200 miles from Princeton, with orders to thumb their way to "that place where Einstein thinks" and bring back his signature...
Like the Bucknell boys, most tourists and many Princeton residents consider the Institute for Advanced Study "that place where Einstein thinks." It is the truth, but not the whole truth. At 69, Albert Einstein is still an Institute faculty member, still comes floating, corona-haired, across "the grounds" to Fuld Hall every fair morning. But in the close-knit fraternity of physicists, it is sadly recognized that Einstein is a landmark, not a beacon; in the quick progress of physics, he has been left some leagues behind...
When he settles down in his armchair to read, he turns to old masterpieces (two recent exceptions: the poetry of Pulitzer-Prizewinning U.S. Poet Robert Lowell, which he admires, and a German biography of Albert Einstein, for whom he has great regard). Santayana is never too busy to see visitors, but has little time for other people's opinions. To his New York editor he wrote: "Visitors do not need letters of introduction. Tell them all to come and see me; I shall be delighted to see them, on one condition: that I do all the talking and they...