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NOTES

Einstein’s letters and writings through 1920 have been published in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein series, and they are identified by the dates used in those volumes. Unpublished material that is in the Albert Einstein Archives (AEA) is identified using the folder (reel)-document numbering format of the archives. For some of the material, especially that previously unpublished, I have used translations made for me by James Hoppes and Natasha Hoffmeyer.

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1. Einstein to Eduard Einstein, Feb. 5, 1930. Eduard was suffering from deepening mental illness at the time. The exact quote is: “Beim Menschen ist es wie beim Velo. Nur wenn er faehrt, kann er bequem die Balance halten.” A more literal translation is: “It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.” Courtesy of Barbara Wolff, Einstein archives, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

CHAPTER ONE: THE LIGHT-BEAM RIDER

1. Einstein to Conrad Habicht, May 18 or 25, 1905.

2. These ideas are drawn from essays I wrote in Time, Dec. 31, 1999, and Discover, Sept. 2004.

3. Dudley Herschbach, “Einstein as a Student,” Mar. 2005, unpublished paper provided to the author. Herschbach says, “Ef

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Foreword by Evelyn Einstein

Edited by Alice Calaprice

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Foreword Evelyn Einstein

Preface

A Note to the Children

Chronology of Einstein's Life

"I Am Merely Curious": A Short Biography

Einstein's Education Robert Schulmann

An Einstein Picture Gallery

The Letters

Afterword

Additional Reading

Index

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t is a boon as well as a burden to have the Einstein name all of one's

life. My first encounters with people would probably have been different if I had
introduced myself as Evelyn Smith or Evelyn Jones. The expectations that others
had of me seemed to be higher because I was "an Einstein." So, if I did well in
school, there was never any special praise, yet the children still thought of me as
a teacher's pet. I was always fearful that people would be angry with me if I did
not live up to my name.

My grandfather died when I was fourteen, so naturally all contact ended at

that time. I wish I could have known him in my adulthood so that we could have
shared

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March1879 – 18 April1955) was a German theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Together, relativity and quantum mechanics are the two pillars of modern physics. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

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1890s

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Un homme heureux est trop content du présent pour trop se soucier de l'avenir.
- A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
- From "Mes Projets d'Avenir", a French essay written at age 18 for a school exam (18 September 1896). The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol. 1 (1987) Doc. 22.

1900s

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Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.
- Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Another translation: Authority gone to one's head is the greatest enemy of truth. (Collected P