Not that joy per was, 25iein''s view, suffit either as motivation or justification for stifideavor. Suppo, said Einstein - he was thirty-nine and this was the first time he had addresd such questions in public - an angel of the Lord were to drive from the temple of serely tho stists 30"who make their sacrificial of brain grea only for the sake of utilitarian ends," but also the far oner and not wholly iimable sort "who occupies himlf with s the joyful feeling of superior intellectual power", for whom "sce is his proper sport, and brings him forceful 35experiences and satisfa of his ambition." All the banished, who would then remain iemple of sce? Ferecious few, said Einstein.
While Einstein did not wish to give a single, uniform ao the question of what led tho few into stific pursuits, he stresd that it 40was less the activity per , the desire "to form a simplified, synoptic picture of the world" was of first importao tho "someeculiar, rerved, solitary fellows." her did Einstein push his metaphors so hard as to speak here of holy meed to uanding how God ordained 45His word. Yet clearly his thoughts were pointing in that dire. In the succeeding decades of his life, Einstein spoke ever more often and directly in such terms, came tard himlf "as a man possd. As in my youth, I sit here endlessly and think and calculate, hoping to uh 50deep crets."
Not that joy per was, 25iein''s view, suffit either as motivation or justification for stifideavor. Suppo, said Einstein - he was thirty-nine and this was the first time he had addresd such questions in public - an angel of the Lord were to drive from the temple of serely tho stists 30"who make their sacrificial of brain grea only for the sake of utilitarian ends," but also the far oner and not wholly iimable sort "who occupies himlf with s the joyful feeling of superior intellectual power", for whom "sce is his proper sport, and brings him forceful 35experiences and satisfa of his ambition." All the banished, who would then remain iemple of sce? Ferecious few, said Einstein.
While Einstein did not wish to give a single, uniform ao the question of what led tho few into stific pursuits, he stresd that it 40was less the activity per , the desire "to form a simplified, synoptic picture of the world" was of first importao tho "someeculiar, rerved, solitary fellows." her did Einstein push his metaphors so hard as to speak here of holy meed to uanding how God ordained 45His word. Yet clearly his thoughts were pointing in that dire. In the succeeding decades of his life, Einstein spoke ever more often and directly in such terms, came tard himlf "as a man possd. As in my youth, I sit here endlessly and think and calculate, hoping to uh 50deep crets."
A good example of this perverahis tenacity, and above all, this thh independen the pursuit of uanding, is Einstein''s achievement of the theory of relativity. The ive result of the Michelson-Morley experiment desigo reveal 55the motion of the earth relative to the ether, although one of the main difficulties leading his poraries toward similar ception, has not beeioned iein''s first papers oivity and robably of little importan the development of his ideas. Rather, the paradox which 60had moved and focud his thoughts from the time he was still a pupil in Aarau revolved around this question - how would a light wave appear when viewed by an obrver moving in the same dire at the same speed? The obvious answer was that it should appear as static electrid magic fields 65who magnitudes oscillated sinusoidally in space. "There does not, however, appear to be any such thing," Einstein said, "her on the basis of experienor acc to Maxwell''s equations. From the very beginning it appeared to me intuitively clear that, judged from the standpoint of 70su obrver everything would have to happen acc to the same laws as for an obrver at rest relative to the earth." After ten years of puzzling over this problem, uniquely his problem, it occurred to Einstein in the spring of 1905 that "time was suspect." From the moment of that insight 75to the pletion of a paper - the paper - was then just a matter of weeks.