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Does he know of the appraisal of Einstein, who is reported to have said...
...else on earth-more than ruin, more even than death." But in every age since the pyramid builders', there have been a few exceptional men who would willingly risk death for the enjoyment of thinking. Whether Socrates had as high an I.Q. as Shakespeare or Descartes, Schweitzer or Einstein, will never be known. What is certain is that all such men used their brains as energetically as they knew how. Today, man may have no greater brain capacity than the ancients, but he has revolutionary ideas about how to exploit...
Because children of different age groups suffer different sorts of psychological problems about nuclear warfare, their parents must be prepared to use different methods to allay their fears, argues the pamphlet's author. Psychologist Sibylle Escalona of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. But one problem is common to all parents and all children: nuclear war hazards are particularly difficult to discuss because parents know so little about them. And the one thing that all youngsters want, from kindergarten through adolescence, is certainty...
...fields of specialized knowledge, we aim to render an account that is plain and simple, yet does no violence to the difficulty of the subject, so that the uninformed reader can understand us while the expert cannot fault us. We try to keep in mind a saying attributed to Einstein-that everything must be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler...
...always wanted to be a physicist, Niels Henrik David Bohr could have chosen no better age in which to live. By the time he was in college, physics was in fascinating chaos. Blow after blow had shattered its foundations: Albert Einstein proved that matter is energy, Max Planck proved that energy comes in indivisible packets he called quanta. Lord Rutherford proved that though the very name atom means "indivisible" in Greek, atoms are not indivisible. Nothing seemed certain. One physicist declared that all students should be warned: "Caution! Dangerous structure! Closed for reconstruction...