Word: einsteins
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...have to be Albert Einstein to figure out that people who socialize together are going to be more likely to be found in similar employment 10 years from now than people selected at random. The fact that the Fly Club is selective in its membership only makes it more probable that its members will lead similar lives...
...ignore them. Judaism is a beautiful heritage that has brought a lot to the world and to its people. So many men and women, who have contributed greatly in secular fields, have been proud Jews. I get a special sense of Jewish pride when I read Albert Einstein's quote: "The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, and almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence, these are the features of the Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars I belong...
Readers of Martin Amis' earlier fictions -- notably Success, Money: A Suicide Note and Einstein's Monsters -- will find that he outdoes himself in London Fields. It could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...
...neither prove God nor disprove him, whether he be Einstein's Old One, the architect of the cosmos, or Michelangelo's stern anthropomorphic censor of our morals. Many of us, including clerics of all faiths, think it unlikely that an all-wise creator would choose for himself the male form of a primate so close genetically to a chimpanzee that some taxonomists would include the pair in the same genus...
...books. Even if this may be a correct explanation of the "causes" of nerdiness in some people, Berger's normative assertion is surely ridiculous, if not dangerous. By the same token, he would claim that European Jews should be grateful to anti-Semitism for having helped to produce Einstein, Freud, or Marx...