Einstein, the Searcher: His Work Explained From Dialogues With Einstein (Classic Reprint)

Uke nature; it deserves special attention inasmuch as it is illuminated by the name Albert Einstein, and deals with a personality whose achievements mark a turning-point in the development of science. Every investigator, who enlarges our vision by some permanent discovery, becomes a milestone on the road to knowledge, and great would be the array of those who have defined the stages of the long avenue of research. One might endeavour, then, to decide to whom mankind owes the greater debt, toE ucH dor to A rchimedes, toP lato or to A ristotle, toD escartes or toP ascal, to Lagrange or toG auss, to Kepler or to Copernicus. One would have to investigate as far as this is possible in how far each outstanding personaU ty was in advance of his time, whether some contemporary might not have had the equal good fortune to stumble on the same discovery, and whether, indeed, the time had not come when it must inevitably have been revealed. If we then further selected only those who saw far beyond their own age into the iU imitable future of knowledge, this great number of celebrities would be considerably diminished. We should glance away from the milestones, and fix our gaze on the larger signs that denote the lines of demarcation of the sciences, and among them we should find the name of Albert Einstein.
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