Albert Einstein


TWO BRIEF EINSTEIN STORIES

The following paragraph by Peter Bowerman is printed here with his permission.

"Here's a true story that circulates in the human potential movement: A top physics student in college sits in class, bored. The professor's covering material he's already mastered. He dozes off. Waking when class is over, he sees two problems on the chalkboard - the usual location of that night's homework - jots them down and takes off. That night, he's having a heckuva time with the assignment. Very unusual for him, being the class ace and all. He manages to solve one, but is stumped by the second, so he calls the professor, asking if he could meet with him before class. They get together and, with shaking hands, the professor asks to see his work. What the boy had done was solve one of the two problems Albert Einstein deemed 'unsolvable.' And all because he thought it was the homework."

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Before they immigrated to the US, the Einsteins endured the severe economic situation in post WWI Germany. Mrs. E saved old letters and other scrap paper
for Albert to write on and so continue his work.
Years later, Mrs. Einstein was pressed into a public relations tour of
some science research center. Dutifully she plodded through lab after lab
filled with gleaming new scientific napery, the American
scientists explaining things to her in that peculiarly condescending way
we all treat non-native speakers of our own language.
Finally she was ushered into a high-chambered observatory, and
came face to face with another, larger, scientific contraption.
"Well, what's this one for?" she muttered.
"Mrs. Einstein, we use this equipment to probe the deepest secrets
of the universe," cooed the chief scientist.
"Is THAT all!" snorted Mrs. E.
"My husband did that on the back of old envelopes!"
-- Mrs. Einstein