Science: Genius at Home

I don't like the family Stein:

There is Gert, there is Ep, and there's Ein;

Gert's poems are bunk,

Ep's statues are punk,

And nobody understands Ein.

Albert Einstein's position as one of the great popular idols of the 20th Century is a historic phenomenon of hero worship. Few of his millions of admirers understand his relativity theory, fewer still have any notion of how it might benefit mankind. He has been called atheist, radical, many another hard name. Yet Manhattan's famed Riverside Church has already enshrined him in stone among the great scientists of all...

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