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...felt the inexorable march of Time: progress; evolution; Einstein's fourth dimension a living reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...library-friends is the Yale Library Associates, organized last December under the direction of Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Keeper of Rare Books in Yale University's costly new Sterling Memorial Library. Last month the library got through the Associates' work a notable gift?a summary of Dr. Albert Einstein's relativity theory, written in his own hand, valued at $25,000 (TIME, March 16). And last week it received 160 original letters from Poet Matthew Arnold to Poet Arthur Hugh Clough, upon whose death Arnold wrote Thyrsis* With money given by members of Yale's class of 1917, Professor Tinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Friends of Libraries | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Savants Einstein, Tolman & Podolsky prove that it is impossible to say exactly where that electron was before it struck the measuring device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Past As Uncertain As Future | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Before Albert Einstein ended his recent visit at California Institute of Technology, he?with Drs. Richard Chace Tolman and Boris Podolsky of the institute?wrote a letter to The Physical Review. This letter, published last week, answers in a measure a persistent query: What good did Professor Einstein's U. S. visit do Science? In the letter he proved that the Past is as unascertainable as the Future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Past As Uncertain As Future | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Einstein, snug last week in his Berlin Tower, was somewhat restless. "[We do] not describe Nature, but merely expectations from Nature," he said. "Whereas the aim of Science is to describe the things themselves, not merely the probability of their happening. . . ." He is confident that there is a cause for every phenomenon; that some day some scientist will be able to explain precisely why Mary started for the theatre, why she turned at the observer's tap, why she did or did not proceed to a particular performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Past As Uncertain As Future | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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