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...blackboard-announced to the class that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points-and then tried to draw one. All I can say is that I, too, have never been able to draw a straight line. I am sure you shared my joy when Einstein proved that there ain't no such thing as a straight line...
Fussy Frau Albert Einstein manages her fuzzy-crowned husband much as a hen does a bewildered chick. Worrying lately about his health, she wished to have him examined, was able to only by a trick: she got a doctor to show Dr. Einstein a sphygmomanometer. Inquisitive, he fiddled with it to see how it worked, had his blood pressure counted before he knew it. Examination showed Dr. Einstein no more unhealthy than the average sedentary person. But last fortnight, aboard the S. S. Westernland en route to the U. S., he felt unwell, was obliged to keep to his cabin...
...lucid are Russell, Haldane and John William Navin Sullivan. Himself more of a plain man than a scientist, Interpreter Sullivan puts his meaty subject in a nutshell, then cracks the nut. In no uncertain terms, Author Sullivan states the findings, seekings, final uncertainty of modern science. From Pythagoras to Einstein he traces its development: from philosophy through magic and materialism to its present indeterminate flux. Modern scientists, says Sullivan, are really estheticians in disguise. Science's chief fascination to them is "because it provides the contemplative imagination with objects of great esthetic charm." To take Science as a religion...
...Bradley, the sturdy but mistaken moralist, for whom Mr. Santayana, unlike Mr. T. S. Eliot, does not cherish an excessively warm regard. There is, as the third essay, a highly suggestive consideration of the theory of relativity and the new physics. The suspicion is advanced that "even Einstein is an imperfect relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them...
This brings us, as Castor might remark, to another of the champions who have recommended universal strike as a deterrent to the military. Professor Einstein, speaking at London's Alfred Hall, mentioned many things, among them the necessity for international brotherhood, but nary a word of strike. For only last month the Professor, asked by Belgian friends whether the Nazis would menace Belgium, advised them to leave their university and join the army. This shift in position was loudly applauded by the Hearst editorial writers as a sensible adjustment to circumstance; none the less, the Professor would like to have...