Selected other titles by Edmund Blair Bolles
The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
A Second Way of Knowing: The Riddle of Human Perception
Remembering and Forgetting: Inquiries into the Nature of Memory
So Much to Say: How to Help Your Child Learn
Galileo’s Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing (editor)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bolles, Edmund Blair, 1942-
Einstein defiant : genius versus genius in the quantum revolution / by Edmund Blair Bolles.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-309-08998-0 (hbk.)
1. Quantum theory—History—20th century. 2. Physics—Europe—History—20th century. 3. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. 4. Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962. I. Title.
QC173.98.B65 2004
530.12′09—dc22
2003023735
Copyright 2004 by Edmund Blair Bolles. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
Bohr asked me to sit down and soon started to pace furiously around the oblong table in the center of the room. He then asked me if I could note down a few sentences as they emerged during his pacing. Bohr never had a full sentence ready. He would often dwell on one word, coax it, implore it, to find the continuation. This could go on for several minutes. At that moment the word was ‘Einstein’. There was Bohr, almost running around the table and repeating: ‘Einstein … Einstein …’. After a little while he walked to the window, gazed out, repeating every now and then: ‘Einstein … Einstein …’.
—Abraham Pais, Niels Bohr’s Times