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...wondered whether his brain was up to par. When he was twelve, he got a copy of Euclid's Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Still, it took him two attempts to pass the entrance exams to Zurich Polytechnicum...
...commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume of Philosopher Immanuel Kant...
...American Industrial Society and Philosophy & Literature. Since science and engineering will still be the center of the plan, M.I.T. students will in effect be taking a "double major," will find themselves gulping down bigger doses than ever before of everything from Plato to Dante, Sophocles to Aquinas, Hobbes and Kant and Dewey, laced with Locke, Marx and Dickens...
Five years ago Professional Wrestler Ralph ("Wild Red") Berry was injured in the ring and had to spend months in a hospital. To while away the time he read a few books-the Bible, Plato, Aristotle aad Kant, he says. Last week in Chattanooga, Wild Red was wrestling again...
...drew plans for a one-man submarine and a "flying carriage." In Sweden's House of Nobles he spoke brilliantly in favor of trade, liquor-control laws, and the decimal system. He was a physicist who anticipated Kant and Laplace in the nebular hypothesis, and a paleontologist far ahead of his time. His contributions to science included a modern theory of molecular magnetics, a system of crystallography, a mercury air pump, and a method of determining longitude at sea from the moon...