Re: Einstein

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@nau.edu>]

> Hmmm....not sure I am comfortable with Einstein as arbiter of 
> iiral uplift.  He was like Feynman, a womanizer.
> His marriages were not shining examples ( wasn't his second 
> wife his cousin?)
>
> He is revered by students as a leading proponent of the odd...
> odd socks, odd shirts, odd coats...
>  Only his penetrating theoretical papers saved him from a stolid
> existence as a patent clerk, second class - a refuge for the person
> who could not easily obtain a teaching post of the kind he wanted.
>
> Sincerely
>
> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
> Altus OK
Well, I consider Einstein as impressive a figure for his peace activitism
as for his science.  See http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/einstein.htm
for an extensive list of this activism.  Would that more scientists took
greater moral responsibility in politics.  And yes, he did have marital
difficulties.  He was a human being.

Dan M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu  http://www.phy.nau.edu/~danmac/homepage.html