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" By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bete noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and... "
The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the Mathematical ... - Page 178
1920
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Easy Lessons in Einstein: A Discussion of the More Intelligible Features of ...

Edwin Emery Slosson - 1920 - 150 pages
...me and my circumstances in The Times shows an amusing feat of imagination on the part of the writer. By an application of the theory of relativity to the...represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bete noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 304

1920 - 1150 pages
...me and my circumstances in the Times shows an amusing feat of imagination on the part of the writer. By an application of the theory of relativity to the...represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bete noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a...
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The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations

Robert K. Merton - 1973 - 639 pages
...and my circumstances in the Times shows an amusing flare of imagination on the part of the writer. By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of the reader, today in Germany I am called a German of science and in England I am represented as a Swiss...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...ROLAND BARTHES (1915-80), French semiologist. Mythologies, "The Brain of Einstein' (1957; tf. 1972). 2 wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government o 1 am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be...
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Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries

H. R. Dalafi - 1994 - 386 pages
...me and my circumstance in the Times shows an amusing feat of imagination on the part of the writer. By an application of the theory of relativity to the...represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bete noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a...
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Einstein's Mirror

Anthony J. G. Hey, Patrick Walters - 1997 - 314 pages
...relative'. Einstein himself is guilty of using this aspect of relativity theory when writing in The Times: By an application of the theory of relativity to the...represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bete noire, the descriptions will be reversed and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...painter, engraver. The Letters of William Blake, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1956). Letter, April 12, 1827. 2 By an application of the theory of relativity to the...and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I 2 The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW...
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Science in Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibility

Jane Gregory, Steve Miller - 1998 - 318 pages
...description of me and my circumstances in The Times shows ... an imagination on the part of the writer. By an application of the theory of relativity to the...represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bete noire, the descriptions will be reversed ..." (The paper allowed Einstein his little joke at their...
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Lifting the Scientific Veil: Science Appreciation for the Nonscientist

Paul Sukys - 1999 - 614 pages
...At the end of the article Einstein comments that, with the verification of his theory of relativity, "In Germany I am called a German man of science and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew."3 He then added, somewhat in jest, that if relativity is ever disproven, "I shall become a Swiss...
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Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where

David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...[economic] school easily corrected |by| topp, List: 1 theory of relativity: by application of the tor, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England a Swiss Jew, Einstein: 1 theory of strength-of-weak-ties: Blau: 3 Granovetter: 1 theory of the state:...
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