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Ronald W. Clark's acclaimed biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed. Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized over making the Bomb, the indifferent Zionist asked to head the Israeli state, and the physicist who believed in God.… (meer)
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"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy." Albert Einsten (quoted by Philipp Frank in "Einstein's Philosophy of Science," Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 21, No. 3, July 1949)
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FOREWORD The story of Albert Einstein, scientist, philosopher, and contemporary conscience, with all its impact and influence, would fit better within the walls of a library than between the covers of a single book.
CHAPTER 1 GERMAN BOY The ife of Albert Einstein has a dramatic quality that does not rest exclusively on his theory of relativity.
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No man of his intellectual ability, no man who had so decisively changed the concepts of the universe, could hope for more.
Ronald W. Clark's acclaimed biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed. Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized over making the Bomb, the indifferent Zionist asked to head the Israeli state, and the physicist who believed in God.
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