Problems

Norbert Weiner famously hiked for hours.  And swam, belly up, with a lit cigar in his mouth.

Albert Einstein took a violin with him everywhere he went, and played every day.

Here's an Einstein reminiscence:

I sometimes ask myself, how did it come that I was the one to develop the Theory of Relativity?  The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time.  These are things which he has thought of as a child.  But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.  Naturally, I could go deeper into the problem than a child….

 

 

May 14, 2005 | Filed Under main page 

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  1. Anonymous on May 15th, 2005 2:37 pm

    Einstein said that imagination is more important that critical thinking… He used to imagine himself as a beam of light traveling through space.
    Time and Space are far more complicated than most people even know. Einstein is simply in a league of his own.
    posted by: mark

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