PREFACE
in England . . . my work Letter to Frederick Lindemann, 28 Aug. 1927, in Cherwell Papers, file D54, Nuffield College, Oxford.
I love this country Daily Telegraph, 28 July 1933.
the most civilised country Letter to Max Born, in Born and Einstein: 125.
It just won’t stick Eisinger: 136.
Einstein’s English Infeld: 260.
I cannot write in English Born and Einstein: 145.
Einstein was an Anglophile Calaprice, Kennefick and Schulmann: 119.
I rejoice at the new universe Holroyd: 611.
PROLOGUE | A WANDERER ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
See him as he squats New Statesman and Nation, 21 Oct. 1933, in Keynes, Collected Writings, vol. 28: 22. See also an earlier article on Einstein by Keynes, controversial for its anti-Semitism, in Keynes, Collected Writings, vol. 10: 382–4.
atrocity propaganda World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism, The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror: 236–7.
I really had no idea my head Manchester Guardian, 8 Sept. 1933.
When a bandit New York Times, 9 Sept. 1933.
I shall become a naturalised Englishman Daily Express, 11 Sept. 1933.
there would have been no Shakespeare ‘Professor Einstein’ in [Albert Hall]: 5. This souvenir booklet, Royal Albert Hall: Tuesday October 3rd 1933, reproduces all of the speeches at the meeting. No publisher is given; the booklet appears to have been produced by Oliver Locker-Lampson.
I could not believe that it was possible Eastern Daily Press, 4 Oct. 1933. Einstein’s comment appears to have been made to the reporter, who is unnamed.
ONE | THE HAPPIEST THOUGHT OF MY LIFE
Before Maxwell, people conceived Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 269.
England has always produced Salaman, ‘Memories of Einstein’: 23.
It is a pleasure and an honour Film of Einstein talking at the University of Nottingham, 6 June 1930, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=161UNSza_qk (accessed 7 Nov. 2018).
entirely irreligious Schilpp, ed.: 3.
speculative brooding Fölsing: 8.
sergeants Moszkowski: 223.
Constraint has always been Vallentin: 20.
Let us return to Nature Moszkowski: 66.
To punish me Hoffmann with Dukas: 24.
withdraw to the sofa Einstein, CPAE, vol. 1: xxii.
Einstein was more of an artist Whitrow: 52.
I can still remember Schilpp, ed.: 9.
a second wonder Ibid.
earth-measuring Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 234.
suspicion against every kind of authority Schilpp, ed.: 5.
he would never get anywhere Fölsing: 27.
Hypersensitivity Einstein, The Travel Diaries: 89. He refers to Ernest Kretschmer.
my individual inclination for the abstract Einstein, CPAE, vol. 1, doc. 22: 16.
So far as he was ever at home Snow: 74.
creating a new theory Einstein and Infeld: 159.
I’m convinced more and more ?10 Aug. 1899, in Einstein and Mari´c: 10.
lazy dog Seelig: 28.
impudence 12 Dec. 1901, in Einstein and Mari´c: 67.
He a model student Hoffmann with Dukas: 36.
It gave me the opportunity Clark: 75.
was intrigued rather than dismayed Rigden: 8.
[Einstein] would carefully study Jürgen Renn and Robert Schulmann, in introduction to Einstein and Mari´c: xxii.
three intellectual musketeers Highfield and Carter: 96.
laughed so much Ibid.: 102.
far less childish Ibid.: 97.
Thank you. I’ve completely solved Fölsing: 155.
steadfastness Ibid.: 195.
started from the postulate ‘A Brief History of Relativity’, in Robinson, Einstein: 42.
misdeed Einstein, Relativity: 10.
The stone traverses Ibid.: 11.
If I pursue a beam of light Schilpp, ed.: 53.
We should catch them in a reverse order Einstein and Infeld: 177.
unjustifiable hypotheses Einstein, Relativity: 32.
required abandoning the idea ‘A Brief History of Relativity’, in Robinson, Einstein: 44.
Not only do we have no direct experience Fölsing: 175.
We are accustomed Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 299.
revolutionary Robinson, Einstein: 52.
Is the world to be described Rigden: 21.
According to the assumption Ibid.: 19.
I just read a wonderful paper ?28 May 1901, in Einstein and Mari´c: 54.
The views of space and time Bernstein: 95.
Since the mathematicians pounced Fölsing: 245.
mysterious shuddering Einstein, Relativity: 56.
‘Analytic’ or ‘algebraically expressed’ geometry Arianrhod: 172.
singularly simple Daily Telegraph, 22 Apr. 1955.
The two sentences Einstein and Infeld: 224.
I was sitting on a chair Fölsing: 301.
the happiest thought Miller: 217.
the idea that the physics in an accelerated laboratory Hey and Walters, Einstein’s Mirror: 270.
You understand, what I need to know Fölsing: 325.
A beam of light carries energy Einstein and Infeld: 234.
When a blind beetle Michael Grüning, Ein Haus für Albert Einstein, Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1990: 498.
space was deprived of its rigidity Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 281.
His idea was that mass and energy ‘A Brief History of Relativity’, in Robinson, Einstein: 46.
Matter tells space-time Isaacson: 220.
The examination of the correctness or otherwise Einstein, Relativity: 76–7.
TWO | HATS OFF TO THE FELLOWS! FROM A SWISS JEW
the English have behaved 9 Mar. 1921, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 12, doc. 88: 71.
The theory of relativity by Einstein Eve: 353. Rutherford made the comment at the Royal Society of Arts in 1932.
The foundation of general relativity Eisenstadt: 250.
Einstein had really offended Clark: 125.
he should not worry Morrell: 401.
How came it Harrod: 21.
he did not show the slightest sign Ibid.: 15.
It was a hot-house Oxford product . . . perfectly futile. Ibid.: 25–6.
No Anglo-Saxon can understand relativity! Eve: 193.
In Cambridge during the period 1905 to 1920 Warwick: 358.
I have not been able so far 20 May 1909, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 5, doc. 162: 121.
The principle of relativity then does not deny Warwick: 424.
Take electricity out of the world Fölsing: 159.
the whole electrodynamic properties Ibid.: 388.
Quietly obeying the law Cunningham, ‘Einstein’s Relativity Theory of Gravitation’: 355.
The long train of events Clark: 261.
Unlike the case of British electromagnetic theory Warwick: 454.
Far from regarding the theory as a threat Ibid.: 464.
the lies and defamations Fölsing: 345.
create an organic unity Stern: 115.
Why are we hated Fölsing: 366. Einstein’s Swiss colleague was Romain Rolland.
dead, except for a few Indians Stanley: 136.
To assert that it is our religious duty Douglas, The Life of Arthur Stanley Eddington: 93.
I should like to bring to the notice of the tribunal Ibid.: 149.
What will it mean if we get Ibid.: 40.
had he been left to himself Chandrasekhar: 112.
About 1:30 . . . a second plate. Stanley: 106–7.
was a moment which Eddington never forgot Douglas, The Life of Arthur Stanley Eddington: 40.
Through cloud. Hopeful. Stanley: 107.
Oh leave the Wise Douglas, The Life of Arthur Stanley Eddington: 43.
They gave a final verdict Clark: 286–7.
I knew all the time that the theory Fölsing: 439.
but, you know, he didn’t really understand physics French: 31.
The result is now definite Fölsing: 440.
The whole atmosphere of tense interest Bernstein: 119.
A very definite result Fölsing: 443.
this result is not an isolated one Chandrasekhar: 116.
Einstein’s theories would dominate all physics Clark: 299.
I was myself a sceptic Ibid.
Professor Eddington, you must be Chandrasekhar: 117. The physicist who approached Eddington was Ludwik Silberstein, author of The Theory of Relativity, London: Macmillan, 1914.
The description of me and my circumstances The Times, 28 Nov. 1919.
He is famous just now Ibid.
and during the lecture the hall Nature, 11 Dec. 1919: 385.
Einstein and Epstein Clark: 301–2.
Its formation was due Ibid.: 307.
All England has been talking about your theory 1 Dec. 1919, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 9, doc. 186: 263.
[He] gave a moan Warwick: 485.
The time has come, said Eddington Clark: 401–3. The parody was written in 1924. Sadly, there is no record of Einstein’s reaction to it.
People here have been talking of nothing else 26 Nov. 1919, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 9, doc. 177: 151–2.
thank God, the solar eclipse 12 Dec. 1919, in Lawson: 927. Einstein’s original German letter is lost, but was partially published by Lawson in his obituary of Einstein.
Einstein believes his books Fölsing: 379.
When you send in the matter 22 Feb. 1920, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 9, doc. 326: 273.
Einstein taught everything is relative Friedman and Donley: 9.
An hour sitting with a pretty girl Sayen: 130.
though that would, no doubt Manchester Guardian, 10 June 1921.
Einstein himself has become Manchester Guardian, 10 June 1921, https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-northerner/2016/jun/10/albert-einstein-manchester-university-doctor-of-science (accessed 7 Nov. 2018).
Lord Haldane tells us Clark: 339–40.
will be found to date back Haldane: 33.
In a post-war Britain Ibid.: 336–7.
the less they know about physics Salaman, ‘A talk with Einstein’: 370.
Lord Haldane was a man Sommer: 382.
I was almost terrified by the commotion Ibid.: 381.
You are in the presence of the Newton Nation & Athenaeum, 18 June 1921: 431. Reports in the Manchester Guardian (14 June 1921) and The Times (14 June 1921) mention applause for Einstein at the beginning of his lecture, but appear to be less reliable. See also the report in Nature, 16 June 1921: 504, and a letter by A. S. Yahuda in The Times, 30 Mar. 1933, which mentions only silence from the audience until the end of the lecture.
It is a special joy for me ‘King’s College Lecture’, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 7, doc. 58: 238.
My lecture is already a little long Nation & Athenaeum, 18 June 1921: 431.
and surely not least for his courage Letter from A. S. Yahuda in The Times, 30 Mar. 1933.
We welcome you twice Jewish Chronicle, 17 June 1921: 26.
I enclose a note 14 June 1921, in Cherwell Papers, file D53, Nuffield College, Oxford.
They both enjoyed greatly their visit 15 June 1921, in Cherwell Papers, file D53, Nuffield College, Oxford.
The wonderful experiences in England 21 June 1921, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 12, doc. 155: 113.
There is no doubt that your visit 26 June 1921, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 12, doc. 159: 115.
THREE | A STINKING FLOWER IN A GERMAN BUTTONHOLE
A funny lot, these Germans 17 Apr. 1925, in Fölsing: 549.
For the first time, a world-famous German scholar Eisinger: 83.
expressing his hope Ball: 85.
He invented the difference Born and Einstein: 35.
In contrast to the intractable Calaprice: 14.
This, however, was no more than one could expect Ball: 84.
As the speakers went on Clark: 318.
That was most amusing Ibid.
I feel like a man lying in a good bed Fölsing: 463.
Herr Weyland and Herr Gehrcke ‘My Response. On the Anti-Relativity Company’, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 7, doc. 45: 197–9.
The attacks on Prof. Einstein Fölsing: 464.
goaded Born and Einstein: 33.
Don’t be too hard on me Ibid.: 34.
impudence Einstein and Mari´c: 67.
The state, to which I belong as a citizen Fölsing: 368.
you know that my darling Letter to Helen Savi´c, ? Dec. 1901, in Mari´c: 79.
the virulent anti-Semitism Rosenkranz, Einstein before Israel: 26.
Herr Dr Einstein is an Israelite Fölsing: 250.
Why are these fellows Ibid.: 489–90.
was Jewish, but wished he weren’t Isidor Rabi quoted in Cassidy: 32.
unjustified humiliations Born and Einstein: 17.
not to be got rid of by well-meaning propaganda Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 182.
History has shown that Einstein Born and Einstein: 17.
I am neither a German citizen Clark: 379.
It goes against the grain Fölsing: 489.
Naturally, I am needed not for my abilities Ibid.: 495.
lone traveller Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 9.
they did not make the all-important transition Rosenkranz, Einstein before Israel: 260.
I was fully convinced Seelig, Albert Einstein: 81.
Weizmann’s relationship with Einstein Weisgal and Carmichael, eds: 42.
Einstein and the Zionist movement Rosenkranz, Einstein before Israel: 65.
I was to stir up Einstein . . . Telegram Weizmann that I agree Clark: 465–6.
To the whole world you are today 9 Mar. 1921, in Fölsing: 497.
Despite my internationalist beliefs Ibid.
Recall Einstein’s visit Jewish Chronicle, 24 June 1921.
For, I am supposedly among 6 July 1922, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 13, doc. 266: 212.
The great scholar Albert Einstein Note 170 in Einstein, Travel Diaries: 305.
Harden’s statement is certainly awkward 20 Dec. 1922, in Einstein, Travel Diaries: 253.
enlightened colonialism ‘Historical introduction’ to Einstein, Travel Diaries: 42.
very Wilhelminian 1 Feb. 1923, in ibid.: 211.
English formality Ibid.: 213.
a man of kindly disposition Samuel: 253.
Continue on into the city with Ginsberg 3 Feb. 1923, in Einstein, Travel Diaries: 213–15
The great event has been Einstein Bentwich: 95–6.
Mount the platform Clark: 479.
evidently unfamiliar Samuel: 253.
That evening, well and truly satisfied 7 Feb. 1923, in Einstein, Travel Diaries: 221.
Drive from terraced, very scenic Nazareth 13 Feb. 1923, in ibid.: 229–31.
Political passions Nathan and Norden, eds: 640.
You can do nothing, gentlemen ‘The International Character of Science’, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 13, doc. 3: 24–5.
I was naturally eager Nathan and Norden, eds: 58–9.
Although I am not clear at all Clark: 430.
the situation here is such that a Jew Nathan and Norden, eds: 59.
I have received your letter Clark: 431–2.
I have become convinced that the League Nathan and Norden, eds: 61.
I fully understand your action Ibid.
the League functions as a tool Ibid.: 62.
I do not hesitate to tell you Ibid.: 66.
an exchange of letters Clark: 441.
Is there any way Nathan and Norden, eds: 188–90.
It seems to me an utterly futile task Ibid.: 90.
I am convinced that the international movement Ibid.: 91.
I feel only contempt Ibid.: 111–12.
Even if only two per cent Ibid.: 117.
The next war will, I think Letter to Herbert Runham Brown, 21 Mar. 1931, in Russell, Autobiography, 2: 202
FOUR | GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing Born and Einstein: 88.
I no longer ask myself 13 May 1911, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 5, doc. 267: 187.
I suppose it’s a good thing 15 Mar. 1922, in Fölsing: 512.
I have thought a hundred times Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 57.
I think I can safely say Hey and Walters, The New Quantum Universe: 1.
The strange landscape Rovelli: 72.
it was the law that was accepted Whitaker: 100.
the tremendous practical success ‘On the Method of Theoretical Physics’, in Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 273.
probably the strangest thing Fölsing: 154.
That sometimes, as for instance in his hypothesis Ibid.: 147.
wholly untenable Pais, ‘Subtle is the Lord’: 357.
If Planck’s theory of radiation Ibid.: 395.
It cannot be denied Fölsing: 256.
It is my opinion that the next phase Rigden: 37–8.
one of the landmarks Schilpp, ed.: 154.
revelation Fölsing: 390.
Einstein was the first to recognise Townes: 13.
With this, the light quanta Fölsing: 392.
leaves the time and direction of the elementary process Ibid.
Were it not for Einstein’s challenge Jammer: 220.
I find the idea quite intolerable Born and Einstein: 80.
if one abandons the assumption Ibid.: 162.
Einstein’s moon really exists Peat: 166.
It was quite a shock for Bohr Whitaker: 217–18.
wave, or quantum, mechanics Pais, ‘Subtle is the Lord’: 515.
The conviction prevails Einstein, Relativity: 158.
Ten more papers appeared Tilman Sauer, ‘Einstein’s Unified Field Theory Program’, in Janssen and Lehner, eds: 281.
like the hermits of old 5 Jan. 1929, in Fölsing: 604.
Large crowds gather Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 179.
to obtain a formula Jammer: 57.
Could we not reject Einstein and Infeld: 257–8.
no trace remains Steven Weinberg, ‘Einstein’s Search for Unification’, in Robinson, Einstein: 108.
He himself had established his name Abraham Taub, quoted by Christopher Sykes in foreword to Whitrow: xii.
There are two different conceptions Tagore: 531–2.
we ought to be concerned solely Heisenberg: 68.
wrong to think that the task Pais, Niels Bohr’s Times: 427.
Man defends himself Tagore: 532.
I have never been able to understand Einstein Born and Einstein: 151.
Theory fed on observation Powell: 97.
a spacious castle in the air ‘Einstein’s Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology’, in Janssen and Lehner, eds: 241.
not justified by our actual knowledge Clark: 269.
totally abominable Christopher Smeenk, ‘Einstein’s Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology’, in Janssen and Lehner, eds: 255.
Many theorists saw the phenomenon O’Raifeartaigh: 31.
biggest blunder Gamow: 44.
did not go away so easily Weinberg: 178–9.
Every man has his own cosmology Douglas, ‘Forty minutes with Einstein’: 100.
FIVE | A BARBARIAN AMONG THE HOLY BROTHERHOOD IN TAILS
Doctoral ceremony in large hall 23 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
You are the only sort of man 2 Dec. 1924, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 14, doc. 387: 595.
Everybody knows that Einstein Russell, The ABC of Relativity: 9.
Nature and Nature’s laws John Collings Squire, Poems in One Volume, London: Heinemann, 1926: 218.
I think you are the youngest 5 Nov. 1925, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 15, doc. 102: 183.
makers of universes Jewish Chronicle, 31 Oct. 1930. The speeches by Shaw and Einstein at the dinner can be heard on Albert Einstein: Historic Recordings 1930–1947, London: British Library, 2005.
I looked out from the window Griffiths: 5.
More than any other people Nature, 26 Mar. 1927: 467.
If your father were not Mendelssohn: 168.
was a man of intuition Entry on Lindemann, ODNB, 3 Jan. 2008.
The Prof., so it went Harrod: 48.
He was an out-and-out inequalitarian Entry on Lindemann, ODNB, 3 Jan. 2008.
Like many scientists Einstein Daily Telegraph, 22 Apr. 1955.
It has often been asked how Fort: 200.
It is a disaster Fox: 2.
The university and the trustees desire 29 June 1927, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 32–654.
How gladly would I accept Undated but probably July 1927, in Cherwell Papers, file D54, Nuffield College, Oxford.
During the holidays 28 Aug. 1927, in Cherwell Papers, file D54, Nuffield College, Oxford.
The movement to induce Prof. Einstein Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 26 Dec. 1930.
two blackboards, plentifully sprinkled The Times, 18 May 1931.
an account of his attempt to derive Nature, 16 May 1931: 765.
the discourse should be in English Manchester Guardian, 28 Apr. 1955. Einstein’s remarks were recalled by Mrs K. Haldane.
l’affaire Einstein Chapman to Lord Lothian, 10 June 1931, in Rhodes Trust Archives, file 2694(2), Rhodes House, Oxford.
he had since discovered 9 June 1933, in Rhodes Trust Archives, file 2694A, Rhodes House, Oxford.
The lecture was indeed well-attended 16 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
Some of the scientists seem 13 May 1931, in Rhodes Trust Archives, file 2694A, Rhodes House, Oxford.
your present of two blackboards 19 May 1931, in Rhodes Trust Archives, file 2694A, Rhodes House, Oxford.
I should be glad if you could come round 25 May 1931, in Rhodes Trust Archives, file 2694A, Rhodes House, Oxford.
It appears that Einstein stumbled Cormac O’Raifeartaigh, ‘Einstein’s Blackboard and the Friedmann-Einstein Model of the Cosmos’, https://coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/einsteins-blackboard/ (accessed 7 Nov. 2018).
In so far as he understood what Relativity was about Griffiths: 5.
Atque utinam Mercurius hodie adesset Oxford University Gazette, 3 June 1931: 627.
The doctrine which he interprets Oxford Times, 29 May 1931.
serious, but not wholly accurate 23 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
I had noticed his face lit up Margaret Deneke, ‘Professor Albert Einstein’: 4, in Deneke Papers, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Generations of Oxford undergraduates Entry on Helena Deneke, ODNB, 23 Sept. 2004.
In he came with short quick steps Margaret Deneke, ‘Professor Albert Einstein’: 1–3, in Deneke Papers, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Lady Wylie thought Ibid.: 4–5.
The guests hastily left the room 15 May 1931 in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
He scrutinised the violin Margaret Deneke, ‘Professor Albert Einstein’: 13–14, in Deneke Papers, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
relatively good White: 287.
the denizen of dimly lit music rooms Ibid.: 288.
Professor Einstein was still at his breakfast table Margaret Deneke, ‘Professor Albert Einstein’: 23–4, in Deneke Papers, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
the holy brotherhood in tails 2/3 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
He was by nature a rebel Hoffmann and Dukas: 248.
In our governing body Harrod: 47.
Dr. Einstein, do tell me Toynbee: 268. According to Arnold Toynbee, Einstein answered Gilbert Murray in Tom Quad: ‘I am thinking that, after all, this is a very small star.’ However, in a remarkably similar anecdote referring to Murray’s house recounted by Murray himself, Einstein answered as I have given: see Nathan and Norden, eds: 70.
Dundas lets his rooms decay The Times, 17 May 1955.
Evening club meal in dinner-jacket 1 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
Silent existence in the hermitage 2/3 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
was a charming person Harrod: 47.
threw himself into all the activities Lindemann to Lothian, 27 June 1931, in Cherwell Papers, file D56, Nuffield College, Oxford.
very clever man 5 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
showed that Milne’s distinctive approach Christopher Smeenk, ‘Einstein’s Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology’, in Janssen and Lehner, eds: 253.
excellent institution 22 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
pitiful 23 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
There are so many fictitious peace societies A. Fenner Brockway, New World, July 1931, in Nathan and Norden, eds: 140.
For example, he suggested that The Friend, 12 June 1931: 567.
a fat giant with a red face 21 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
more Egyptian than Greek in character 26 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
The types of humanity in the streets Margaret Deneke, ‘Professor Albert Einstein’: 7, in Deneke Papers, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Make sure you get home 9 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
Soon there will be water-closets 25 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
Long-branched and delicately strung Isaacson: 361.
tiny moustached and hatted figure Golding: 182, and extended version in Golding, ‘Thinking as a Hobby’, http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/hdwyer/thinking-as-a-hobby-by-william-golding/ (accessed 7 Nov. 2018).
Your kind letter has filled me 6 July 1931, in Cherwell Papers, file D56, Nuffield College, Oxford.
harmonious community life 29 Oct. 1931, in Einstein Papers, Christ Church, Oxford.
Dear Dean, I was amazed 24 Oct. 1931, in Einstein Papers, Christ Church, Oxford.
I think that in electing Einstein 24 Oct. 1931, in Einstein Papers, Christ Church, Oxford.
a German who has no connection 2 Nov. 1931, in Einstein Papers, Christ Church, Oxford.
The world at large Financial Times, 2 Feb. 2008.
SIX | THE REALITY OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF REALITY
Experience can of course guide ‘On the Method of Theoretical Physics’, in Kent: 17.
Jews as a race Jewish Chronicle, 20 May 1932.
The gate at Christ Church is locked Margaret Deneke, ‘Professor Albert Einstein’: 14, in Deneke Papers, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
when we clean house Clark: 543.
I am convinced that a military regime Frank: 273.
Before you leave our villa Ibid.
As long as I have any choice New York World-Telegram, 10 Mar. 1933.
The raid Clark: 562.
The concierge of the German embassy Rowe: 236.
atrocity propaganda Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 14 Apr. 1933.
Even though in political matters Fölsing: 662.
But now the war of extermination Ibid.: 664.
Two ideologies Ibid.
The hours which I was permitted to spend Ibid.: 729.
in order to maintain public security and order Grundmann: 297.
Highly Esteemed Professor Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 50–804.
despatched their children to Nazi Germany Boyd: 371.
My first recollection of Herr Hitler Daily Mirror, 30 Sept. 1930.
true ‘Blue shirts and blitzkrieg? It’s just not cricket’, The Times, 18 Mar. 2010.
token of his esteem Winterbotham: 35.
in more than nickname Time, 6 July 1931.
a Jew and a Communist Obituary of Locker-Lampson in New York Times, 9 Oct. 1954.
I am sitting here in my very pleasant exile 1 May 1933, in Cherwell Papers, file D57, Nuffield College, Oxford.
there was not much prospect 4 May 1933, in Cherwell Papers, file D57, Nuffield College, Oxford.
one room 7 May 1933, in Cherwell Papers, file D57, Nuffield College, Oxford.
You are not a father yourself 9 May 1933, in Cherwell Papers, file D57, Nuffield College, Oxford.
There is no written evidence Fölsing: 673.
You know, I think, that I have never had Born and Einstein: 111–12.
a poor forlorn little figure Clark: 582.
The sanctuary from personal turmoil Introduction to Janssen and Lehner, eds: 20.
a reckless overestimation Fölsing: 561.
perhaps the clearest and most revealing Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 55.
from the chains of the ‘merely personal’ Schilpp, ed.: 5.
Strenuous intellectual work Letter to Pauline Winteler, ? May 1897, in Einstein, CPAE, vol. 1, doc. 34: 33.
I believe with Schopenhauer Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 225.
I wish to preface what I have to say ‘On the Method of Theoretical Physics’, in Kent: 12.
If you wish to learn Ibid.
But this is the common fate Ibid.: 13.
We honour ancient Greece Ibid.
Pure logical thinking Ibid.: 13–14.
the first creator . . . as the ancients dreamed Ibid.: 15–17.
I still believe in the possibility Ibid.: 19.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer Einstein, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein: 371.
It was not until several decades later . . . a unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism. Farmelo: 77–8. The comment by Jeroen van Dongen was made in a personal communication to Farmelo in 2017.
after having ruefully returned Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 289–90.
Professor Einstein is of all living philosophers Manchester Guardian, 21 June 1933.
SEVEN | ON THE RUN
Through your well-organised work Einstein, ‘Science and Civilisation’, in [Albert Hall]: 5. This souvenir booklet, Royal Albert Hall: Tuesday October 3rd 1933, reproduces all of the speeches at the meeting. No publisher is given; the booklet was presumably produced by Oliver Locker-Lampson.
rebirth of Germany Siemens: 124–5.
Murder stalks through Germany World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism, The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror: 312.
a little sprawling Jew Ibid.: 236–7.
Discovered a much-contested theory Clark: 572–3.
a bird fascinated by a serpent Vallentin: 161.
We get as many angry letters Ibid.: 162.
My husband has not allowed himself Ibid.: 160.
I need hardly tell you 31 Mar. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 51–222.
I now have more professorial chairs Clark: 574.
There is no need for us to provoke Daily Express, 19 Apr. 1933.
Spain’s offer to Einstein Jewish Chronicle, 21 Apr. 1933.
on a fortunate symbiosis Letter to the editor from Paul S. Riebenfeld, New York Times, 1 Nov. 1987.
There is his place New York Times, 30 June 1933.
He answered emphatically Jewish Chronicle, 28 Apr. 1933.
It is completely clear to me Rosenkranz, Einstein before Israel: 230.
Someone has seen Einstein Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 123–402.
a friend . . . [who] has seen Professor Einstein abroad Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 121–788.
I am going to England tomorrow to speak Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 49–566.
He is an eminently wise man ?22 July 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 143–250.
Person of the Century See Larres, ‘Churchill and Einstein: Overlapping Mindsets’, https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchill-einstein-overlapping-mindsets/ (accessed 7 Nov. 2018).
As soon as Hitler took power Snow: 81.
L. G. was no scientist Lloyd George: 227.
That leave be given to bring in a bill ‘House of Commons Debates’, 26 Jul. 1933, Hansard, 280: 2604–6.
Commander Locker-Lampson showed himself The Sunday Times, 30 July 1933.
As a people we are not supposed Manchester Guardian, 27 July 1933.
Members eagerly came forward Jewish Chronicle, 28 July 1933.
Einsteinish Jewish Theatre Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 31 July 1933.
I cannot believe that such a thing Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 75–513.
I love this country Daily Telegraph, 28 July 1933.
In the heart of Europe lies a power Nathan and Norden, eds: 229.
I am sure you will not take it amiss Ibid.: 230–1.
Under circumstances such as prevailed Ibid.: 231.
It is the National Socialist leaders World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism, The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror: 195.
is enough to make Hitler’s Germany Ibid.: 162.
anxious that the book should be published Miles: 96.
They shall not force me to do that Daily Express, 12 Sept. 1933.
I was not responsible for the Brown Book The Times, 11 Sept. 1933.
proved to be the author of the book Jewish Chronicle, 8 Dec. 1933.
Belgium was dangerously near Germany Vallentin: 167.
Why do you assume Frank: 292.
All sorts of unpleasant surprises Ibid.: 293.
At the very moment of my arrival Vallentin: 168.
Professor Lazarus Letter to the editor from Lessing, Manchester Guardian, 26 May 1933.
Locker-Lampson liked to pretend Personal communication to author from Stuart McLaren, 5 July 2017.
near Cromer Daily Express, 12 Sept. 1933.
I am going to the countryside 10 Sept. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 143–260.
Morning, Master Colman Snelling: 6.
He was a rich man’s pig of a son Ibid.: 7.
L.L. is wonderful ? Sept. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 143–643.
I live here like a hermit ? Sept. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 143–259.
admirable solitude 24 Sept. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 75–960.
He would walk across the heath Eastern Daily Press, 22 Mar. 1979.
First we were confronted by Clark: 609.
A suspicious-looking cow Daily Express, 29 Sept. 1933.
Einstein appeared dressed Epstein: 77–8.
Like other intellectuals Manchester Guardian, 16 Sept. 1933.
carefully leaked Clark: 609.
members of the League of Gentiles Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 4 Oct. 1933.
I hereby undertake not to create any disturbance Clark: 610.
It is now permissible to disclose Daily Express, 5 Oct. 1933.
at once dramatic and homely Manchester Guardian, 4 Oct. 1933.
I had never seen him before Notes by William Beveridge for his BBC talk, ‘Professor Albert Einstein at the Albert Hall’, 3 Oct. 1933, in Beveridge Papers, file 9A/45/4, London School of Economics.
The saving of these refugee students ‘Lord Rutherford’ in [Albert Hall]: 2. This souvenir booklet, Royal Albert Hall: Tuesday October 3rd 1933, reproduces all of the speeches at the meeting. No publisher is given; the booklet was presumably produced by Oliver Locker-Lampson.
as unconcernedly as if lecturing New York Times, 4 Oct. 1933.
It cannot be my task today ‘Professor Einstein’ in [Albert Hall]: 5. See film of Einstein talking at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBage5Ff57E (accessed 7 Nov. 2018)
I lived in solitude in the country Ibid.: 6.
In these difficult times Clark: 613.
imaginative proposal Hoare: 240.
Stormy weather Daily Express, 6 Oct. 1933.
For him loneliness Infeld: 284.
Einstein expressed over and over again Born and Einstein: 107–8.
I heard that you called me 5 Oct. 1933, in Cherwell Papers, file D57, Nuffield College, Oxford.
Locker-Lampson frightened Einstein Clark: 613.
Mr Sieff Cooper: 78.
An amicable settlement Ibid.: 80.
I am going to visit Princeton University Manchester Guardian, 9 Oct. 1933.
EIGHT | I VILL A LITTLE T’INK
Science is not and never will be Einstein and Infeld: 308.
hardly justifiable 21 Nov. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 16-383.
On the other hand, we should be very sorry 6 Dec. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 16-384.
I have voiced my opinion 17 Dec. 1933, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 16-382.
I need scarcely tell you 9 May 1934, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 78–555.
because if I come to Oxford 22 Jan. 1935, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 16-388.
Sometimes I think back nostalgically 16 Feb. 1935, in Fölsing: 686.
He had gone through the ritual Dyson: 14.
the greatest living person New York Times, 28 Nov. 1939.
Generations to come Einstein, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein: 124.
Whenever we came to an impasse Whitrow: 75. A shorter version of the anecdote appears in Hoffmann and Dukas: 231.
The clue to the understanding Infeld: 274.
I never thought of that! Rhodes: 305.
This new phenomenon Rosenkranz, The Einstein Scrapbook: 74.
Very few of the younger generation Infeld: 276.
It is true that this equation Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 229.
With his death, we, my wife and I Born and Einstein: 229.
many of his scientific concerns Ibid.: xiii.
Einstein’s greatest contribution to relativity Ibid.: xx.
Both men were brilliant Ibid.: xxxiii.
I am extremely delighted Ibid.: 125.
He has been so upset by my illness Vallentin: 175.
The incidental way in which Einstein Born and Einstein: 127.
What I most admired in [Michele] Letter to Vera and Bice Besso, 21 Mar. 1955, in Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 25.
I did share your opinion Born and Einstein: 182.
The Germans, however Ibid.: 185.
to the land of the mass-murderers Ibid.: 195.
I only want to tell you Ibid.: 200.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the one hand Ibid.: 201.
You are wrong in casting aspersions Ibid.: 200.
Without wishing to defend Ibid.: 134.
I was very sad when the Jews started Ibid.: 174.
Your Palestine letter has moved me Ibid.: 174–5.
I cannot make a case for my attitude to physics Ibid.: 155.
He saw in the quantum mechanics of today Ibid.: 199.
I am convinced that ideas Greenspan: 302.
I personally feel very happy here Born and Einstein: 122.
One feels as if one were an Ichthyosaurus Ibid.: 188.
What have you got against being an Ichthyosaurus? Ibid.: 190.
You are surprised, aren’t you Frank: 356.
Actually, Einstein was not isolated Born and Einstein: xiii.
He always has a certain feeling Frank: 354.
The greatest men of science Infeld: 310–11.
This was a splendid idea Ibid.: 312.
Once a work is finished Ibid.: 318.
man who worked with Einstein Ibid.: 320.
Oj weh Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 219.
Americans are proud Jerome: 218.
No other man contributed New York Times, 19 Apr. 1955.
We must realise we cannot simultaneously New York Times, 23 June 1946.
The war is won, but the peace is not Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 115–17.
commingled and distributed Ibid.: 130.
Do I fear the tyranny Ibid.: 120.
the authority of the General Assembly Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 234.
it might not be altogether illogical Nathan and Norden, eds: 231.
If we hold fast to the concept Einstein, Ideas and Opinions: 146.
The reactionary politicians Ibid.: 33–4.
the greatest political genius Einstein, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein: 124–5.
anyone who gives advice like Einstein’s Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 238.
That’s the same advice Jerome: 240.
a disloyal American Ibid.
Commander Locker-Lampson offers 14 June 1953, in Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 41–214.
In your issue of June 13 New York Times, 26 June 1953.
All the intellectuals in this country 28 June 1953, in Russell, Autobiography, vol. 3: 59.
In common with every other thinking person 11 Feb. 1955, in Nathan and Norden, eds: 623–4.
twelve persons whose scientific attainments 16 Feb. 1955, in ibid.: 625–6.
There lies before us, if we choose Robinson, Einstein: 206.
is as valid today as it was then Ibid.
if I knew that I should have to die Infeld: 294.
EPILOGUE | AN OLD GYPSY IN A QUAINT AND CEREMONIOUS VILLAGE
Princeton is a wonderful little spot 20 Nov. 1933, in Clark: 643.
His face was contemplatively tragic ‘Einstein’s Last Interview’, in Robinson, Einstein: 212–13.
the happiest thought Miller: 217.
That, alas, is vanity ‘Einstein’s Last Interview’, in Robinson, Einstein: 215.
It is like childishness Ibid.: 221.
I never saw in him any trace Preface to Nathan and Norden, eds: xiv.
As with many other major breakthroughs Janssen and Renn: 300.
Einstein said most emphatically ‘Einstein’s Last Interview’, in Robinson, Einstein: 217.
weakness Ibid.: 221.
Einstein apparently had little feeling Ibid.: 221.
Yes, he liked England Snow: 87.
the holy brotherhood in tails 2/3 May 1931, in Einstein, ‘Diary Notes, April–June 1931, Berlin and Oxford’, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 29–142.
Einstein chortled Snow: 87.
If Einstein dislikes his fame Infeld: 293.
I must tell you quite frankly 3 Apr. 1932, in Fölsing: 647–8.
One has to guard against 23 Dec. 1950, in Seelig: 40.
We might almost believe that we are in Oxford Vallentin: 170–1.
The copy was supposed to be exact Infeld: 243–4.
The atmosphere of Princeton is exemplary Pritchett: 568.
eminently wise Letter to Elsa Einstein, ?22 July 1933, Einstein Archives, Jerusalem: 143–250.
As a theoretical physicist Einstein stands alone Daily Telegraph, 22 Apr. 1955.
a thorough-going Englishman Born and Einstein: 112.
There has been a nasty mess Ibid.: 111.
strongest human bond Rosenkranz, Einstein before Israel: 273.
Remoteness, a relative absence Letter to Anthony Storr, 29 Sept. 1978, in Berlin: 84.
slight overacting Mendelssohn: 174. I have slightly rephrased the original for grammatical reasons but not altered its sense.
I shall leave England for America Eastern Daily Press, 4 Oct. 1933.
To Bohr one and only one place Pais, Einstein Lived Here: 39.
If I had to characterise Ibid.: 55.
Nothing really at any period of my life Andrew Robinson, Genius: 77.