Anecdotes about Einstein
Wastebasket of His Mistakes When Albert Einstein arrived in America at the age of 54? the ocean liner Westernland sailed into New York Harbor in October 171933, the official welcome committee was waiting for him. Einstein and his entourage, however, were nowhere to be found. Abraham Flexner, director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, has shielded his celebrity professor from publicity. So he sent the tugboat Spirit Great from Westernland to get through quarantine as quickly as possible. With his hair pulled back from a wide-brimmed black hat, Einstein crept ashore on a tugboat, which took him and his party down to Manhattan, where they were transported to Princeton. "Dr. Einstein wanted peace and quiet," Flexner told reporters. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work in theoretical physics, Einstein was given an office at the Academy. He asked what equipment he needed. "A desk or table, chair, paper and pencil," he replied. "Oh, and a big basket, so I can throw away all my mistakes." He and Elsa, his wife, rented a house and settled down to live in Princeton. He likes the fact that America, despite its unequal wealth and racial injustice, is more of an elite than Europe. "Let the new ones come who are committed to the democratic character of this country," he later marveled. "No one humbles himself before another." Einstein was not an Einstein, however, there was no Einstein when he was still a child growing up. In Munich, Germany, the first child of Hermann and Paul Einstein, he slowly learned to speak. "My parents were so worried," he recalls, "that they called a doctor." When he started using words after the age of 2, he developed a quirk that prompted his nanny to give him retardation. "Everything he said, no matter how conventional," recalled his sister, Maya, he repeated softly, moving his lips. "His slowly developing combination was that of a cheeky rebellious authority, which led to a German schoolmaster Pack him up. Another said Einstein would not be much more. "When I asked myself how this happened, I discovered the theory of relativity, which seemed to lie underneath the situation," Einstein later explained. "The average adult doesn't bother his head with questions about space and time. These are what he thinks about as a child. But I developed very slowly and I started thinking about space and time when I had grown up. I explored it more deeply. It was not a matter of an ordinary child having a joy in science." Encouraged by his genial father, who ran the family business, and his music-loving mother, Einstein spent hours working on puzzles and buildings. p>
Toys for towers. "Perseverance and resilience were part of his character," his sister said. Once, Einstein was ill in bed as a child and his father brought him a compass. Einstein was so excited at the later memory that when he examined its mysterious power, he shivered and grew colder. The magnetic needle behaves as if it were subject to a hidden force field, rather than touching or touching through mechanical means. "What's hidden deep behind," he said. He is interested in magnetic fields, gravity, inertia and light beams. He retains the ability to hold two thoughts together at the same time, feeling confused when in conflict and joyful when he sees an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote to a friend years later and we never stopped talking. "All are curious children before the great mysteries to which we are born." Contrary to popular belief, Einstein was good at mathematics. By the age of 13, he already had a predilection for solving complex problems in applied mathematics, his sister recalled. An uncle, Jacob Einstein, an engineer, introduced him to the joy of algebra, calling it "the science of joy," and when Einstein achieved a victory, he was "overjoyed." He learned from reading popular science books, Showing that he "the Bible cannot be true," Einstein formulated a dogma that resisted all forms. He wrote in 1901, "A foolish belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
A proud American At the age of 15, Einstein left Germany for northern Italy, where his parents moved Going about his own business, and at 16, he wrote his first article in theoretical physics. Einstein discovered the theory of relativity, which he graduated from ETH Zurich in 1900 when he was 21, involving intuitive knowledge as well as personal experience. He developed the theory starting in 1905, and later worked at the Swiss Patent Office.
But his theory was not fully accepted until 1919, when observations during a solar eclipse confirmed his predictions of how much the Sun's gravity bent the beams. At age 40, in 1919, Einstein suddenly became world famous. He also married Elsa and his wife was the father's son from his first marriage. In the spring of 1921, his explosion of fame led to a grand monthly visit to the United States, where he received a warm welcome and would evoke popular madness wherever he went. The world has never seen such a scientific celebrity. Einstein loved America and admired the results of its continual prosperity, freedom and individualism. In March 1933, while Hitler was in Germany, Einstein realized that he could no longer live in Europe. In the fall, he settled in Princeton, and by 1940, he was a U.S. citizen, proud to call himself an American. Harmony and Mathematics in Nature
On his first Halloween living in America, Einstein surprised them by surprising them by serenading some trick-or-treaters at the door and playing violin. At Christmas, when members of the local church came to sing Christmas carols, he went outside, borrowed a violin, and happily accompanied them. Einstein quickly acquired an image, which grew into a nearby legend, of a gracious professor, scattered at times but always sweet, who rarely combed his hair and wore socks. "I've reached the age of one and if someone tells me to put on socks, I'm not going to do it," he told some local kids. He once helped a 15-year-old student, Henry Rosseau, take a journalism class. Our teacher offered to score an interview with an upscale scientist, so we showed up at Einstein's house, only to be turned away at the door. The milkman gave him a hint: Einstein walked a distance every morning at 9:30. Rosso slipped out of school and struck up a conversation with him. But the students, suddenly all confused, didn't know what to ask. So the question Einstein asked was about mathematics. "I discovered that nature is built in a wonderful way, and our task is to find our mathematical structure in [its] structure," Einstein explained of his education. "It's a belief that has helped me through my whole life." Interview with Henry Rosseau A.
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