Pentcho Valev
2006-04-29 13:14:05 UTC
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050117/full/433218a.html :
"Einstein restored faith in the unintelligibility of science. Everyone
knew that Einstein had done something important in 1905 (and again in
1915) but almost nobody could tell you exactly what it was. When
Einstein was interviewed for a Dutch newspaper in 1921, he attributed
his mass appeal to the mystery of his work for the ordinary person:
"Does it make a silly impression on me, here and yonder, about my
theories of which they cannot understand a word? I think it is funny
and also interesting to observe. I am sure that it is the mystery of
non-understanding that appeals to them...it impresses them, it has the
colour and the appeal of the mysterious."
Pentcho Valev
"Einstein restored faith in the unintelligibility of science. Everyone
knew that Einstein had done something important in 1905 (and again in
1915) but almost nobody could tell you exactly what it was. When
Einstein was interviewed for a Dutch newspaper in 1921, he attributed
his mass appeal to the mystery of his work for the ordinary person:
"Does it make a silly impression on me, here and yonder, about my
theories of which they cannot understand a word? I think it is funny
and also interesting to observe. I am sure that it is the mystery of
non-understanding that appeals to them...it impresses them, it has the
colour and the appeal of the mysterious."
Pentcho Valev