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to him only a minute," he said, but let him sit on a hot stove for only a minute-and it's longer than an hour! That is Relativity!"
And if Professor Einstein's great contribution to the knowledge of mankind can be explained in a few simple
words it might be said to mean that everything is relative, · that everything depends upon one's point of view. It is this
that the foremost mathematical genius of the age perhaps of all times, has taken half a lifetime to reason out and formulate, equations, and symbols to express which not more than a handful of men in all world can understand.
He is not the type of thinker who cannot bring his mind to bear on practical problems. He has made important con. tributions to the art of colour photography, and be even concerns himself with women's clothes.
A mild sensation was once caused at a fashionable West End dance club when a woman arrived in a black velvet cloak trimmed with shimmering silver fur. This was one of the many “creations " which owe their birth to Einstein, who, in the intervals of evolving weighty theories, turned his mind to the problem of finding a process by which furs could be sprayed with gold or silver which would not shake off. And be found it. Real gold and real silver had to be used.
In diverse ways Einstein shows himself to be a superman. Yet he clings to his modest dwelling in Berlin, to his attic workroom and to the primitive furniture he bought in his impoverished student days. He is one of the most famous men in the world, but, like all really great men, he has simple tastes.
"I am happy," he says, "because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles, or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sail-boat is the appreciation of my fellowworkers."
And the fellow-worker whose appreciation Einstein values most is his wife. She it is who is ally, friend, counselShree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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