5/21/2018 Contradictions in a Genius
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Contradictions in a Genius
There were no signs of genius in Albert Einstein as a child. He
was so late in learning to
talk that his parents were worried about him, and at school he
wasnt a bright boy. He was
good at mathematics and weak at almost everything else. He
disliked school, which he called
the educational machine. Stuffing young minds with facts and
figures is not education, hesaid. You dont need to go to school to
learn these They can be got out of books. In 1921,
when he was already world-famous, he gave this answer to a
question about the speed of
sound, I dont know. I dont crowd my memory with facts that I can
easily find in an
encyclopedia.
There were many contradictions in Einsteins life. He could
conceive brilliant scientific
theories, but he let a salesman sell him an elevator for his
two-storey house. I liked the man
so much, said Einstein, that I just couldnt say no. Once he used
a $1,500 check for a
bookmark, and then lost the book.
For many years Einstein was one of the worlds most important
pacifists. Yet he signed
the letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that was directly
responsible for the development
of the atomic bomb. Einstein later said, If I had known that the
Germans would not succeed in
constructing the atom bomb, I would never have lifted a finger.
It is an enormous
contradiction and a bitter irony that it was this great pacifist
who starts the chain reaction of
events that led to the marking of the most terrible weapon in
history. When he heard of the
atomic destruction of Hiroshima in 1945, Einstein said, If only
E had known about it, I would
have become a watchmaker.
Contradies em um gnio
No havia sinais de gnio no Albert Einstein como uma criana. Ele
era to tarde para aprender
a falar que seus pais estavam preocupados com ele, e na escola
ele no era um menino
brilhante. Ele era bom em matemtica e fraco em quase todo o
resto. Ele no gostava da
escola, que chamou a mquina educacional. "Enchendo mentes jovens
com fatos e nmeros
no a educao", disse ele. "Voc no precisa ir escola para aprender
estes -. Eles podem
ser saiu dos livros" Em 1921, quando j era mundialmente famoso,
ele deu esta resposta a
uma pergunta sobre a velocidade do som, "I don sei. Eu no
multido minha memria com
fatos que eu possa facilmente encontrar em uma enciclopdia.
"
Havia muitas contradies na vida de Einstein. Ele poderia
conceber brilhantes teorias
cientficas, mas ele deixou um vendedor lhe vender um elevador
para a sua casa de dois
andares. "Eu gostei do homem tanto", disse Einstein, "que eu no
podia dizer no." Uma vez
ele usou um cheque de US $ 1.500 para um marcador, e depois
perdeu o livro.
Por muitos anos, Einstein foi um dos pacifistas mais importantes
do mundo. No entanto, ele
assinou a carta ao presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt, que foi
diretamente responsvel pelo
desenvolvimento da bomba atmica. Einstein disse mais tarde: "Se
eu soubesse que os
alemes no teria sucesso na construo da bomba atmica, eu nunca
teria levantado umdedo." uma enorme contradio e uma ironia amarga
que era este grande pacifista que
