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one-sided, not an eccentric or a
crank, he was not even vain. He
was a great scientist, a great man
and a great Jew. He was like a
crystal whose every side is per
fect and glittering. What’s more,
Einstein, the scientist, was the
same as Einstein the man. and
Einstein the man was the same
as Einstein the Jew.
E stands for energy, M for mat
ter and c for the velocity of light.
In ther words, the principle
which guided him in science was
the same that led him in his priv
ate and public relations and it
was the same which guided him
as a Jew. He was like the rain
bow whose many colors blend into
one.
Who was Einstein, the scientist '
Bernard Shaw said that there
were eight universe-builders in
human history and that Einstein
was the last of them. Later he re
duced their number to three
The first was Ptolomy in Egypt.
According to him the universe is
as we see it. The earth is flat,
the sky is an immense half-sphere
overarching the earth and the
sun and stars revolve around our
globe. For nearly 1500 years men
beheiod this.
Then came Copernicus, Keppier.
and Newton and they built
another ravers*. According to
then, the sun is the center of our
• vir,4 the earth to-
cethe* with the- planets revolve
a'ou.nd the - r, which atracts them
'• •'* ios them with the immense
force of its gravitation.
Finally Einstein came. He spoke
a different language. He speaks
of space-time, of the frame of ref
erence, of four dimensions and sets
up a new world-picture.
What is the difference between
Newton and Einstein, between the
universe we were taught at school
and Einstein’s universe.
Here is the difference:
According to Newton the uni
verse is endless. You may travel
in it for millions of years, you may
travel at the speed of the light,
186,000 miles a second, for mil
lions and billions of years, yet you
will not reach the end of the uni
verse. There is n end to it. An
unimaginably vast expanse! As the
poet says: "The flight of fancy
flags before it reaches there.”
And this vast world is entirely
mechanistic, like a machinery. Its
* heels are the natural forces, elec
tricity, magnetism, atomic force,
gravitation which work and act
according to their own laws. These
laws are rigid, unchangeable. As
a result, the universe today is as
it was millions of years ago and
after millions of years it will be
as it is today.
In this entirely mechanistic uni
verse there is no place, or at least
no need for God. Today we know
that Newton’s mechanistic world-
picture is in no small degree re-
sp nsible for the spread of athe
ism. non-belief and materialism
during the last centuries.
Einstein’s universe is radically
different. His relativity theory
proves that everything depends on
the frame of reference, that we do
not know and cannot know the
realities of the universe. His
quantum theory shows that the
natural forces are not entirely
mechanistic, they have their laws,
they fellow them but, at times,
they deviate from them. Why?
Nobody knows. There is an ele
ment of mystery in nature and
this is — God. Finally he believes
—and has good reasons for it—
that the universe had not always
been and will not always be as it
is today. He believes that the uni
verse is developing from stage to
stage throughout the aeons — and
that it is God’s hand that shapes
and guides this world-evolution.
Here lies the great difference
between the two systems. New
ton’s theory leads away from God
—Einstein’s leads back to Him.
At this p int Einstein, the phy
sicist. disappears and Einstein, the
man, appears.
The scientist proved the exist
ence of God. The man believes in
him. Five years ago he wrote:
"The most beautiful and pro
found emotion we can experience,
is the mystical. It is the source
of all true art and science. He to
whom this emoti n is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to won
der and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed.
This insight into the mystery of
life, coupled though it be with
fear, also has given rise to religion.
To know that what is impenetrable
to us really exists, manifesting it
self as the highest wisdom and
the most radiant beauty which our
dull faculties can comprehend only
in their primitive forms — this
knowledge, this feeling, is at the
center of true religiousness. In
this sense, and in this sense only,
I belong in the rangs cf devoutly
religious men.” (1)
In his essay "Science and Re
ligion” he shows that there is no
clash between science and relig
ion. On the contrary, they need
and complete each other. Science,
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