Among the hundreds of quotes that Calaprice notes are misattributed to Einstein are many that are subtly debatable. Some are edited or paraphrased to sharpen or neaten the original. It derives from a letter written in German in December to his friend and sparring partner, theoretical physicist Max Born.
I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not play dice. More than 60 years after his death, his fame remains paramount. I feel there are at least four reasons why we are still fascinated by him. They shifted our picture of reality. And he made more than a stab at explaining them to the non-physicist. According to relativity theory, however, time and space disappear together with the things. His performance at his German school was good, but far from brilliant; he disliked the school for its regimentation and eventually abandoned it.
He failed to get an academic position after graduation from university, partly because he mocked his physics teachers. In , although semi-starving, he recognized the value of not conforming.
It would guide him throughout his life. Einstein was also highly engaged politically and socially, and often in the public eye. Despite encouraging US president Franklin D. Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb in , he was horrified by its use in in Japan. He spoke out against racial and ethnic discrimination in the United States.
Einstein in at age Fact 4: Einstein had an illegitimate child. But the fate of the baby, who was named Lieserl, is unclear. She essentially disappeared from historical records shortly after birth. There is no evidence that Einstein ever saw his daughter. Fact 5: Einstein set weird rules for his wife. Einstein demanded a lot from Mileva. In fact, he gave her a set of rules to follow. Included on the list was that she had to serve three meals day , to stop talking if he asked her to, and to expect no intimacy from him.
Einstein and his first wife, Mileva. Fact 6: Einstein got along really well with his cousin. So well, in fact, that she -- Elsa Einstein -- became his wife in The two reportedly were romantically involved during Einstein's first marriage , according to Bio.
Einstein with his second wife, Elsa. Fact 7: Einstein was popular with the ladies. In letters that he wrote to Elsa, Einstein readily acknowledged many extramarital affairs. He wrote that his girlfriends showered him with "unwanted" affection, The Telegraph reported. Fact 8: Wearing socks wasn't Einstein's thing.
In another letter to Elsa, Einstein wrote that he " got away without wearing socks " at the University of Oxford.
The answer was no. Vincent failed again to meet the milestone - he did not have a vocabulary of words; he did not know how to say his name, and of course he had never said a sentence. On learning that we had not paid the speech therapist a visit, the doctor seemed unhappy. At home, Vincent showed perfect understanding when we talked to him in both Chinese and English. His babysitter told us that she was sure Vincent understood Hindi too, even though she talked to him only in English: when she urged her own older children in Hindi to put away their toys, Vincent would grab their sleeves and show them what their mother had been telling them to do.
Over the next six months, my husband and I put off calling the agency. Perhaps he just needed a little extra time. Meanwhile, Vincent was the same happy baby, content with gesturing.
We tried different things to encourage him to talk as the doctor had suggested: when he gestured for a toy or some snack, we repeated the words to him and urged him to say the word before satisfying him; it didn't work as we wished - he either gave up wanting what he asked for, or, when we pushed a little harder, he showed frustration and embarrassment and became sullen.
The more we tried to make him talk, the less happy he was. He'll talk when he's ready," his babysitter warned us. Was he? We were not sure, though we secretly hoped so. And indeed Vincent started to make a few sounds that we very willingly interpreted as some kind of human language. But these sounds did nothing to convince the pediatrician. Did we see the expert?
No, I replied; we thought Vincent was making progress, so we wanted to give him time to develop on his own. The doctor wrote down the phone number and address of the agency and told us to set up an appointment with the speech therapist right away. I blushed. I imagined us in his eyes, immigrant parents who struggled with money and ignored their children's welfare. I could not argue with his logic; after all, he had failed to reach the standards set byscience, and we too, failed to reach the standards set by a society in which good, responsible parents are expected to follow the instructions of experts.
Later that week, I ran into an acquaintance from Bangladesh. She told me that the weight of her month-old baby was off the chart so their pediatrician had put her son on to a nutrition programme where the boy had to spend eight hours every night attached to a feeding tube.
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