The Universe and Dr. Einstein

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The Universe and Dr. Einstein

Original publication date

1948

People/Characters

Albert Einstein

Dedication

    To
J.K.B. and L.H.B.

First words

Anyone who has ever tries to present a rather abstract scientific subject in a popular manner knows the great difficulties of such an attempt. — Foreword -- Albert Einstein
Carved in the white halls of the Riversi... (show all)de Churchin New York, the figures of six hundred great men of the ages—saints, philosophers, kings—stand in limestone immortality, surveying space and time with blank imperishable eyes. — Chapter 1

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Standing midway between macrocosm and microcosm he finds barriers on every side and can perhaps marvel, as St. Paul did nineteen hundred years ago, that "the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear." — Chapter 15
". . . The law of the conservation of the mass of a system becomes identical with the law of conservation of energy . . . " —Appendix

Blurbers

Einstein, Albert; Wylie, Philip

Original language

English