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Top Comments: On 'worldly cloisters' [1]
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Date: 2025-04-18
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I have to post in about an hour and I had nothing until a Bluesky person that I follow reminded me that today is the day that Dr. Albert Einstein died in 1955.
Other than one relative, there is no greater hero to me than Albert Einstein.
I read my first biography of Albert Einstein when I was 9 (maybe 10) years old. I got straight A’s on a report card and my stepfather took me to a bookstore. I decided to get the paperback of the Ronald Clark biography of Einstein.
My copy of this biography was more worn out than the one pictured here.
I read it countless number of times. (The Clark book forever left me obsessed with wanting to learn tensor calculus!)
I’ve read the more recent biography by Walter Isaacson at least 3 times.
Going into high school, I waned to be a theoretical physicist. But...you know…
I know about his successes. I know about his failures (especially his first marriage).
I know that he supported civil rights (although I did not remember that until I was in my 20’s).
Don’t tell the people over in WAYR (?!) but I just finished reading a book by St. john’s College tutor Dr. Zena Hitz titled Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life and one of the many examples that she cites is Albert Einstein; the man who couldn’t find an academic job and had to work in the patent office for years. It was in that patent office that he wrote the scientific papers that would set him on the road to becoming Time’s Person of the 20th century.
Page 64 of Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life.
You know what?
The world and the country is what it is. Albert Einstein saw his native country turned upside down and inside out too. It happens.
For the rest of the day, I will...contemplate on Albert Einstein and about (and perhaps “in”) my own “worldly cloister.”
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