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More than 300 eminent scientists and humanists will gather here this weekend for a conference to honor the work of two of the University's scientists--P. W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Professor, emeritus, and Philipp Frank, biographer of Einstein...
Just a farm boy in Manhattan to get an Albert Einstein Commemorative Award, snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg, 78, downed some scrambled eggs and deplored the U.S.'s manner of pursuing happiness. Result of the pursuit: "Fat-dripping prosperity." Said the Illinois sage: "When the goal of a country is only happiness and comfort, there is danger. Albert Einstein said as much . . . Listen, 'To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me.' You see, he wants the element of struggle in life." What is life's main purpose? "Before...
...Einstein's law on the equivalence of mass and energy (E = mc2) says that a particle which increases its speed must gain mass. In obeying Einstein, the Cambridge electrons grow very fat indeed. When they come out of the accelerator, their mass is about 12,000 times as great as when they went...
...most ambitious project was Robert Montgomery's Portrait of a Man, which struggled to compress into less than an hour the life and times of Albert Einstein. Properly despairing of trying to explain E=mc2 to his audience, Producer Montgomery tried instead to build up a lovable Mr. Chips. He failed, largely because the camera never showed anything but the back of Einstein's head and because the human-interest anecdotes (Einstein flusters a colleague's wife by telling her how to cook calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing...
...Science has introduced many ideas which are greatly under-estimated as pure ideas and are looked at mainly in terms of what tangible objects they will produce," he maintained. Weisskopf cited the theory of electromagnetic fields, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, "one of the greatest ideas human thinking ever brought about," the Darwinian concept of evolution, and the little known quantum theory as examples of scientific ideas with profound philosophical implications...