88 (1985); www.newhorizons.org/neuro/diamond_einstein.htm.
10
. Sandra Witelson et al., “The Exceptional Brain of Albert Einstein,”
, June 19, 1999; Lawrence K. Altman, “Key to Intellect May Lie in Folds of Einstein’s Brain,”
, June 18, 1999; www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/psychiatryneuroscience/faculty/witelson; Steven Pinker, “His Brain Measured Up,”
, June 24, 1999.
11
. Einstein to Carl Seelig, Mar. 11, 1952, AEA 39-013. See also Bucky, 29: “I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person, and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution.”
12
. Seelig 1956a, 70.
13
. Born 1978, 202.
14
. Einstein to William Miller, quoted in
magazine, May 2, 1955, in Calaprice, 261.
15
. Hans Tanner, quoted in Seelig 1956a, 103.
16
. Andre Maurois,
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1968), 35, courtesy of Eric Motley. Perse was the pseudonym of Marie Rene Auguste Alexis Leger, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960.
17
. Newton’s
, book 3; Einstein, “On the Method of Theoretical Physics,” the Herbert Spencer lecture, Oxford, June 10, 1933, in Einstein 1954, 274.
18
. Clark, 649.
19
. Lee Smolin, “Einstein’s Lonely Path,”
(Sept. 2004).
20
. Einstein’s foreword to Galileo Galilei,
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), xv.
21
. Einstein, “Freedom and Science,” in Ruth Anshen, ed.,
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940), 92, reprinted in part in Einstein 1954, 31.
22
. Einstein to Phyllis Wright, Jan. 24, 1936, AEA 52-337.
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