![]() ![]() A colleague said, 'Professor Bohr, surely you don't believe a simple bit of curved metal will create good luck!' To which Bohr replied, in his distinctive confiding whisper, 'I've been informed it works, even if you don't believe.' There's a story, probably apocryphal, that the great physicist Niels Bohr had a horseshoe above the doorway to his study. This kept him isolated from the community he loved: for decades on end. But yet, the very success he had in creating it led him, just a few years later, to a deep psychological mistake. Einstein was exultant when he cracked it, in the midst of war-torn Berlin, in the cold winter of 1915/16. General Relativity is probably one of the greatest achievements of the human mind. But trying to read even just a single page in one of those books? That we have a chance of doing.if we but work hard enough at it. But he does know there's some order in how they're arranged, and what they contain. How did they get there, and who wrote them? He doesn't know. ![]() ![]() The walls are lined with many books, in many languages. 'We are,' Einstein said, 'like a little boy entering a big library.' The room is dim: it's hard to see everything there. ![]() It's one that's driven me in my interest in science as well. Einstein once used a wonderful image to describe how he felt about the world. ![]()
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