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The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Her Benny
Vedere din Parfumerie
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
The Analects of Confucious
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Mutual Aid
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The Brothers Karamazov
Selections from The Principle of Relativity
You´d be surprised how many physicists have never read Einstein in the original. I´m not a physicist, but it may be because Einstein´s theories were always evolving. Here for example, in his theory of General Relativity, I counted remarkably fewer equations than the same theory in his Wikipedia entry.I read this in the most tranquil, serene library; it was just one long large glass window on a unspoiled grassy bay. So maybe that´s why it was so easy. Or maybe Mr. Hawking cut out all of the hairy detail. His footnote to the equations for gravity do damn with faint praise.
Einstein the younger was practically outraged at Newton´s view of gravity, but one General Relativity later and still no one really knows just what gravity is, in a universal sense.
