The Einstein who is revealed in these writings is charming, witty, shrewd, keenly perceptive, and deeply concerned for humanity. An entirely new section on music has been added, the section on science has been expanded greatly, and new photographs add fresh visual appeal. Finally, the new appendix contains an account of the editor's personal peek into the FBI's Einstein file and shows us Einstein's famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which ushered in the atomic age in the United States. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Hitch a ride on this postmodern science road trip as Paterniti and elderly pathologist Thomas Harvey chauffeur the brain across the United States. Provides an inside look at what goes on behind the scenes, first in the lab or the field, and then on paper. In fact, Einstein did nothing less than open the door to the inner structure of the universe. We learn about the new generation of observatories, now being completed worldwide, that will give astronomers not just a new window on the cosmos but a whole new sense with which to explore the heavens. The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein - Four lectures delivered in 1921 at Princeton University constituted an overview of his then controversial theory of relativity.