Einstein

He believed the lawful harmony of the universe suggested the existence of Spinoza‘s God.

Henri Bergson’s debate with Albert Einstein reached and swayed the 1921 Nobel committee.

The gregarious physicist gets inside our brains.

In Gallery 919, in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, there is a giant breathing machine. Its creator, William Kentridge, calls it “the elephant,” after Charles Dickens’s description of factory machines that move “monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.” On the walls surrounding the elephant […]

Uncertainty in physics has gone from black sheep to overachiever.