“I’m taking the side of humanity”: On Einstein’s Ethics of Science in National Geographic’s First Season of Genius
Journal: The Journal of Literature and Science
Year: 2022

In 1899, when Albert Einstein was about to turn twenty, he wrote to his sister Maja claiming: "If everyone lived such a way, namely like me, the writing of novels would never have been invented" (qtd. in Isaacson 39).But, instead of being hypothetically co-responsible for an alternative course of literary development, Einstein's life has inspired numerous novelists, playwrights, and directors to create their own artistic accounts of his multifarious biography.