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- From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
- Subject: Re: Einstein
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:05:54 GMT
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- Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. -- Einstein
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- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire
- telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
- York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this?
- And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
- receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
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- From 'The Little, Brown Book Of Anecdotes' by Clifton Fadiman
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- Albert Einstein was a late talker as a child. His parents were
- understandably worried. finally at the supper table one evening,
- He broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot." Greatly relieved,
- his parents asked why he never said a word before. Young Albert
- replied, "Because up to now everything was in order."
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- It is alledged that when Einstein and his wife visited the Mount
- Wilson Observatory in California, Mrs. Einstein pointed to a particularly
- complex piece of equipment and asked its purpose. Their guide said
- that it was used to determine the shape of the universe. "Oh," she
- said, not at all impressed, "my husband uses the back of an old
- envelope to work that out."
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- Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I
- would want to devote myself to except for the society of the
- true searchers, which has very few living members at any one time.
- Einstein, quoted by Max Born(1971.).
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- Discontinuous and hence nonlinear time is what Einstein feared:
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- I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the
- field concept, i. e., on continuous structures. In that case
- *nothing* remains of my entire castle in the air, gravitation
- theory included, [and of] the rest of modern physics.
- -- Einstein in a 1954 letter to Besso, quoted from:
- "Subtle is the Lord", Abraham Pais, page 467.
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- And Einstein said
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- If Euclid failed to kindle your youthful enthusiasm, then you were
- not born to be a scientific thinker.
-
- American Mathematical Monthly, Sept or Oct 1992 (last issue as of 1992 Oct 18)
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
- Phone: (317)494-6054
- hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu
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- Once the validity of this mode of thought has been recognized, the
- final results appear almost simple; any intelligent undergraduate can
- understand them without much trouble. But the years of searching in the
- dark for a truth that one feels, but cannot express; the intense desire
- and the alternations of confidence and misgiving, until one breaks
- through to clarity and understanding, are only known to him who has
- himself experienced them. - Albert Einstein, 1933
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- Does anybody know the sources of the ones I don't have?
-
- Tom Schneider
- National Cancer Institute
- Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
- Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
- toms@ncifcrf.gov
-