Einstein, the searcher

Proclamation of the New Mechanics.--Verification of Theoretical Results.--Parallels with Leverrier.--Neptune and Mercury.--Testing the Theory of Relativity.--The Solar Eclipse o...

Useful and Latent Forces.--Connexion between Mass, Energy, and Velocity of Light.--Deriving Power by Combustion.--One Gramme of Coal.--Unobtainable Calories.--Economics of Coal....

Order of Distinction and Characteristics of Great Discoverers.--Galilei and Newton.--Forerunners and Priority.--Science and Religion.--Inheritance of Talent.--A Dynasty of Schol...

School Curricula and Reform of Teaching.--Value of Language Study.--Economy of Time.--Practice in Manual Work.--Picturesque Illustrations.--Art of Lecturing.--Selection of Talen...

Relation of Discovery and Philosophy in History.--The Absolute and the Relative.--The Creative Act.--Value of Intuition.--Constructive Activity.--Invention.--The Artist as Disco...

Imaginary Experiment with "Lumen."--Impossibilities.--A Destroyed Illusion.--Is the World Infinite?--Surface Creatures and Shadow Rambles.--What is the Beyond?--Action at a Dist...

Questions of the Future.--Problem of Three Bodies.--Conception of Approximation.--Object of Mechanics.--Simplicity of Description.--Limits of Proof.--Reflections about the Circl...

Practical Aims of Science.--Pure Search for Truth.--Retrospective Considerations.--The Practical Side of Kepler.--A Saying of Kant.--Mathematics as a Criterion of Truth.--Deduct...

"I WISH to ask you. Professor, to help me over a difficulty and to treat me as the spokesman of a great number who are similarly troubled. In most accounts of your theory of rel...

Conditionality and Unconditionality of Physical Laws.--Conception of Temperature.--Grain of Sand and Universe.--Are Laws unalterable?--Paradoxes of Science.--Rejuvenation by Mot...

WE know from the biographies of great thinkers that they seldom personify the character of a dramatic ideal. They are not heroes of fiction who pass through complex experiences...