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  1. C.P. Snow _ Variety of Men

    One day at Fenner's {the university cricket ground at Cambridge}, just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that "the Bradman class" denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein.
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  2. George Gamow

    Much later, when I discussed the problem wit
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  3. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. _ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays

    Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer."
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  4. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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  5. Walter Isaacson _ Einstein: His Life and

    The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified . . . It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them.
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