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Contradictions in a Genius There were no signs of genius in Albert Einstein as a child. He was so late in learning to talk that his parents were worried about him, and at school he wasn’t a bright boy. He was good at mathematics and weak at almost everything else. He disliked school, which he called the educational machine. “Stuffing young minds with facts and figures is not education,” he said. “You don’t need to go to school to learn these – They can be got out of books.” In 1921, when he was already world-famous, he gave this answer to a question about the speed of sound, “I don’t know. I don’t crowd my memory with facts that I can easily find in an encyclopedia.” There were many contradictions in Einstein’s life. He could conceive brilliant scientific theories, but he let a salesman sell him an elevator for his two-storey house. “I liked the man so much,” said Einstein, “that I just couldn’t say no.” Once he used a $1,500 check for a bookmark, and then lost the book. For many years Einstein was one of the world’s most important pacifists. Yet he signed the letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that was directly responsible for the development of the atomic bomb. Einstein later said, “If I had known that the Germans would not succeed in constructing the atom bomb, I would never have lifted a finger.” It is an enormous contradiction and a bitter irony that it was this great pacifist who starts the chain reaction of events that led to the marking of the most terrible weapon in history. When he heard of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima in 1945, Einstein said, “If only E had known about it, I would have become a watchmaker.”
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Contradições em um Genius Não havia sinais de gênio no Albert Einstein como uma criança. Ele era tão tarde para aprender a falar que seus pais estavam preocupados com ele, e na escola ele não era um menino brilhante. Ele era bom em matemática e fraco em quase tudo o resto. Ele não gostava da escola, que chamou a