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- <title>
- Einstein: Einstein Farewell
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--Einstein Portrait
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- March 14, 1932
- Einstein Farewell
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Albert Einstein ended two studious months at California
- Institute of Technology last week. At San Pedro, Lost Angeles'
- harbor, he boarded the Hamburg-American San Francisco with Mrs.
- Einstein, put his pipe and violin in his stateroom with the
- luggage, and sought out the dining salon for "a German meal
- cooked as only Germans know how to cook it."
- </p>
- <p> For farewell he gave--in good English--an interview to
- the Press, which the New York Times meticulously quoted. Dr.
- Richard Chace Tolman, his closest collaborator at Caltech, stood
- by while he delivered some observations and conclusions:
- </p>
- <p> "I shall have to work the rest of my life upon further
- development of the unified field theory. I have changed the plan
- of attack, but the object is the same.
- </p>
- <p> "It is scarcely possible to think that life on other planets
- does not exist.
- </p>
- <p> "In the present opinion, curvature of space has not so much
- importance for cosmological questions as was previously believed.
- But this change has not modified the theory that space may be
- warped in the vicinity of large masses like the sun.
- </p>
- <p> "I believe the apparent motions of nebulae away from the
- earth are real."
- </p>
- <p> Regarding cultural problems he also had wisdom to impart:
- </p>
- <p> "There is some danger of civilization breaking down, but I
- am too optimistic to believe disintegration will occur.
- </p>
- <p> "I don't know if Hitler will be elected President in the
- German elections, but I think his fate will be better if he
- fails.
- </p>
- <p> "American youth has the good fortune not to have its outlook
- troubled by outworn traditions, or by any imposed development
- which they resist.
- </p>
- <p> "Taken as a whole the machine age has not been detrimental
- to the world; but just at the present moment it appears so. The
- problems of the moment may lead to their solutions.
- </p>
- <p> "No one has the imagination to picture a new culture. If one
- had such imagination, he could create a new culture.
- </p>
- <p> "Freedom from the necessity of servants due to mechanical
- household aids is the best feature of American life."
- </p>
- <p> Reporter: Aren't you finding it easier to talk to reporters?
- </p>
- <p> Dr. Einstein: There is a German proverb which says that any
- one can get used to being hanged.
- </p>
- <p> Another Reporter: Should Prohibition be modified?
- </p>
- <p> Dr. Einstein: That's your trouble, not mine.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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