Einstein: His Life and Universe

, performed in 2006, turned up close to 648,000 references.

30

. Pauline Einstein to Fanny Einstein, Aug. 1, 1886; Folsing, 18–20, citing Einstein to Sybille Blinoff, May 21, 1954, and Dr. H. Wieleitner in

Nueste Nachrichten

, Munich, Mar. 14, 1929.

31

. Einstein to Sybille Blinoff, May 21, 1954, AEA 59-261; Maja Einstein, xx.

32

. Frank 1947, 14; Reiser, 35; Einstein 1949b, 11.

33

. Maja Einstein, xx; Bernstein 1996a, 24–27; Einstein interview with Henry Russo,

The Tower

, Princeton, Apr. 13, 1935.

34

. Talmey, 164; Pais 1982, 38.

35

. The first edition appeared in twelve volumes between 1853 and 1857. New editions, under a new title that is referred to in Maja’s essay, appeared in the late 1860s. They were constantly updated. The version likely owned by Einstein had twenty-one volumes and was bound into four or five large books. The definitive study of this book’s influence on Einstein is Frederick Gregory, “The Mysteries and Wonders of Science: Aaron Bernstein’s

Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbucher

and the Adolescent Einstein,” in Howard and Stachel 2000, 23–42. Maja Einstein, xxi; Einstein 1949b, 15; Seelig 1956a, 12.

36

. Aaron Bernstein,

Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbucher

, 1870 ed., vols. 1, 8, 16, 19; Howard and Stachel 2000, 27–39.

37

. Einstein 1949b, 5.

38

. Talmey, 163. (Talmud wrote his small memoir after he had changed his name to Talmey in America.)

39

. Einstein, “On the Method of Theoretical Physics,” Herbert Spencer lecture, Oxford, June 10, 1933, in Einstein 1954, 270.

40

. Einstein 1949b, 9, 11; Talmey, 163; Folsing, 23 (he speculates that the “sacred” book may have been another text); Einstein 1954, 270.

41

. Aaron Bernstein, vol. 12, cited by Frederick Gregory in Howard and Stachel 2000, 37; Einstein 1949b, 5.

42

. Frank 1947, 15; Jammer, 15–29. “The meaning of a life of brilliant scientific activity drew on the remnants of his fervent first feelings of youthful religiosity,” writes Gerald Holton in Holton 2003, 32.

43

. Einstein 1949b, 5; Maja Einstein, xxi.

44

. Einstein, “What I Believe,”

Forum and Century

(1930): 194, reprinted as “The World As I See It,” in Einstein 1954, 10. According to Philipp Frank, “He saw the parade as a movement of people compelled to be machines”; Frank 1947, 8.

45

. Frank 1947, 11; Folsing, 17; C. P. Snow, “Einstein,” in

Variety of Men

(New York: Scribner’s, 1966), 26.