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| jurgenr@web.de (Jürgen R.) wrote in message news:<41567e97.5214357@news.individual.de>...(to Greg Kennedy):
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> nomorechess@wmconnect.comkillspam (NoMoreChess) wrote:
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> What do discoveries have to do with this?
> Einstein was a person whose judgment on matters such as this - i.e.
> whether a man whom he knew well over a period of decades was a decent
> human being - can be trusted absolutely.
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> Obviously you have a very distorted picture of Einstein if he riminds
> you of Bill Gates in some way. Gates is a product of chance and a
> totally uninteresting individual; Einstein was a great scientist and
> an admirable individual in every respect.
I have to say that it could seem rather hagiographical to say that
Albert Einstein was 'an admirable individual in *every respect*'.
As far as I know, there have been some recent criticisms of Albert Einstein
for his allegedly selfish or callous treatment of his first wife, Mileva Maric,
and their daughter, Liserl (whose fate remains unknown). The extent to which
those criticisms of Einstein may be justified seems to be in dispute.
As I recall, C.P. Snow once wrote that Albert Einstein was the most
'unbudgeable' person whom he had ever known, and being 'unbudgeable'
could be both a characteristic of strength and of weakness.
--Nick
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