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...Magellan about sailing around the wold or under it, and so on. So along comes Steve Martin who went to school before teachers were this nice, and he decides to write a fictional meeting between two of the 20th century's most formative figures, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, not knowing that the entire premise would be his best joke for young audiences...
Instead of letting himself be remembered for his great comedy, Martin has taken on the tough project of writing a quasi-compendious retrospective of scientific and artistic thought since 1904. In Martin's debut as a playwright, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Albert Einstein (played by Thomas Derrah) shows up at the famous Montmartre bohemian artists' hang-out the Lapin Agile. While working out theorems and waiting for his date to show up, Einstein meets Picasso (Bill Camp) who stumbles in hoping to be noticed and admired. At first distant and confrontational, the two great minds turn their sparring into...
...could be logical to settle for a breastplate of tin foil over an empty heart. One could argue that we are here for one purpose only: to work--and more precisely, to prove to the world that I, former king of Podunk high, am the next Albert Einstein, Thomas Aquinas and Arturo Toscanini all wrapped...
...field, which could be spit back at will? Knowledge of facts may help you get a job, but would it make you truly great? Most people would say no, as even the most mediocre scholar could look up the details of his trade in seconds. And as Albert Einstein has said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Jonathan Marks, associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, says that there are two public images of scientists--the "avuncular Einstein" and the "malevolent Frankenstein." Both, according to Marks, can be defined as classic nerds...