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...undergraduate or graduate students, freeing faculty for research, similar to Harvard’s own Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Its first faculty member was Albert Einstein...
PASADENA—Albert Einstein spent some of his last years stalking the wide, palm-lined avenues of this sunny town. According to local legend, he sometimes surprised students in my old school next to the California Institute of Technology by pacing through the open-air hallways while class was in session. His tenderness for children is now well-known from the letters he wrote to them. Children wrote to the famous scientist at the end of his life with questions of science, theology and life. The children were not afraid to show their ignorance to this great...
...Einstein, of course, who turned physics on its head in the early 20th century by asking—and answering—fundamental questions about classical Newtonian physics. Before his time, many physicists were claiming that the important questions in physics had already been answered and were urging graduate students to consider other career choices...
...virulent form, and the physicists during the late 19th century also suffered from it, this disease is usually so common that it’s nearly imperceptible. The main symptom is the unwillingness to acknowledge and celebrate one’s own ignorance. The children who wrote questions to Einstein about astronomy, biology and the nature of genius were comfortable with their ignorance. Now, as adults, they are only slightly less ignorant. Yet they declare whole areas of inquiry—such as an entire field in biology—nearly solved...
...idea centers on expanding medicaid, and he contends he could achieve universal health coverage at half the cost of the Gephardt proposal. He promises to spell out the details, including its costs, when he gives the commencement address on June 4 at his alma mater, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...