Persönliche Bekenntnisse

• Warum habe ich meine besten Ideen bloß immer unter der Dusche?
  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanisch-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Physik-Nobelpreisträger, 1921, Quelle unbekannt

• Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig. Brief an Carl Seelig (1894-1962) Schweizer Mäzen, erster Biograph von Albert Einstein, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Poeteus

• Ich weiß ehrlich nicht, was die Leute meinen, wenn sie von der Freiheit des menschlichen Willens sprechen. Ich habe zum Beispiel das Gefühl, dass ich irgend etwas will; aber was das mit Freiheit zu tun hat, kann ich überhaupt nicht verstehen. Ich spüre, dass ich meine Pfeife anzünden will, und tue das auch; aber wie kann ich das mit der Idee der Freiheit verbinden? Was liegt hinter dem Willensakt, dass ich meine Pfeife anzünden will? Ein anderer Willensakt? Ich vertraue auf Intuition. Der andere Albert Einstein, 1984, S. 176, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, Oxford,
  4. September 1995

• Einstein 1944 in einem Brief an Max Born: "Ich habe die Gesetzlichkeiten der Welt auf wild spekulativem Weg zu erhaschen versucht." –––– Einstein: "Es lebe die Unverfrorenheit! Sie ist mein Schutzengel in dieser Welt."
  Artikel von Helmut Hille (*1928) deutscher Bauingenieur, Hobbyphilosoph, Missverstehen wir uns gründlich, präsentiert von dem Blogspot Helmut-Hille, 2005-2014

• Einstein erklärte dem Prager Physiker Frank: "Wenn ich mich frage, woher es kommt, dass gerade ich die Relativitätstheorie gefunden habe, so scheint es an folgendem Umstand zu liegen: Der normale Erwachsene denkt nicht über Raum-Zeit-Probleme nach. Alles, was darüber nachzudenken ist, hat er nach seiner Meinung bereits in der frühen Kindheit getan. Ich dagegen habe mich derart langsam entwickelt, dass ich erst anfing, mich über Raum und Zeit zu wundern, als ich bereits erwachsen war. Naturgemäß bin ich tiefer in die Probleme eingedrungen als ein gewöhnliches Kind."
  Er nahm sich viel Zeit für seine physikalischen Meditationen, zu denen seine "Neugier und dämonische Besessenheit"
  ihn trieben. "Es gibt eine Leidenschaft für das Verstehen." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanisch-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Physik-Nobelpreisträger, 1921, zitiert in: Artikel Die göttliche Harmonie, präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Der Spiegel, Ausgabe 18, 27. April 1955

• Einem Freund erklärte Einstein: "Ich denke und denke und denke – monatelang, jahrelang. Neunundneunzigmal ist die Schlußfolgerung falsch. Beim hundertsten Male ist sie richtig." Unerschütterlich hielt er daran fest, "dass in gewissem Sinne reines Denken die Wirklichkeit erfassen kann".
  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanisch-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Physik-Nobelpreisträger, 1921, zitiert in: Artikel Die göttliche Harmonie, präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Der Spiegel, Ausgabe 18, 27. April 1955

• "Ich bin ein ganz isolierter Mensch, obwohl mich jeder kennt."
  Jürgen Neffe (*1956) deutscher Biologe, Journalist, Autor, Schriftsteller, Einstein. Eine Biographie, Rowohlt, 7. Auflage 18. Januar 2005

• "Ich bin ein richtiger 'Einspänner', der dem Staat, der Heimat, dem Freundeskreis, ja selbst der engeren Familie nie mit ganzen Herzen angehört hat, sondern mit allen diesen Bindungen ihnen gegenüber ein sich nie legendes Gefühl der Fremdheit und des Bedürfnisses nach Einsamkeit empfunden hat." Jürgen Neffe (*1956) deutscher Biologe, Journalist, Autor, Schriftsteller, Einstein. Eine Biographie, S. 39, Rowohlt, 7. Auflage 18. Januar 2005

• An Freiheit des Menschen im philosophischen Sinne glaube ich keineswegs. Jeder handelt nicht nur unter äußerem Zwang, sondern auch gemäß innerer Notwendigkeit. Carl Seelig (1894-1962), Herausgeber, Mein Weltbild, Erstauf-
  lage 1934, Rudolf Kayser, Herausgeber, bearbeitete/ergänzte Neuauflage, Europa Verlag, Zürich/Stuttgart/Wien 1953; auch Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1965, S. 416, Ullstein Taschenbuch, 1. Auflage März 2005

• Ich sorge mich nie um die Zukunft. Sie kommt früh genug.
  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanisch-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Physik-Nobelpreisträger, 1921, zitiert in: Alice Calaprice, Herausgeberin, Einstein sagt: Zitate, Einfälle, Gedan-
  ken, S. 46, Piper Verlag, München, Zürich, 1997, 10. Auflage April 1999

• "Wie glücklich bin ich, dass ich in Dir eine ebenbürtige Kreatur gefunden habe, die gleich kräftig und selbständig ist
  wie ich selbst!" Albert Einstein, Brief an seine Freundin Mileva Maric, 1900
• "Wie glücklich und stolz werde ich sein, wenn wir beide zusammen unsere Arbeit über die Relativbewegung siegreich zu Ende geführt haben. Wenn ich so andere Leute sehe, dann kommt mir's so recht, was an dir ist!" Albert Einstein, Brief an seine Freundin Mileva Maric, März 1901; zitiert in: Artikel Mileva Marić: Die (fast) vergessene Einstein, präsentiert von der Universität Heidelberg, undatiert

• Ich brauche meine Frau. Sie löst alle meine mathematischen Probleme. Albert Einstein, zitiert in: Artikel von Senta Trömel-Plötz (*1939) deutsche feministische Sprachwissenschaftlerin, Autorin, Mileva Einstein-Marić: The woman who did Einstein's mathematics [Mileva Einstein-Marić: Die Frau, die Einsteins Matheaufgaben erledigte], präsentiert von der Nonprofit Publikation Index on Censorship, Heft 19, Ausgabe 9, S. 33-36, 1. Oktober 1990, Seite 33, online veröffentlicht am 24. Oktober 2007

• Am 24. Oktober 1925 schreibt Albert an [seine geschiedene Frau] Mileva: "Meine Heiterkeit aber hast du entfesselt, indem du mir mit deinen Memoiren drohst (...) wenn man eine Null ist, so ist nichts dagegen einzuwenden, aber man soll schön bescheiden sein und das Maul halten. Das rate ich dir." Artikel Die Ehe zwischen Mileva und Albert steht unter keinem guten Stern, präsentiert von der deutschen Tageszeitung Süddeutsche Zeitung, 20. April 2019

• Ich behandle meine Frau [Mileva] wie eine Angestellte, die ich nicht entlassen kann. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanisch-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Physik-Nobelpreisträger, 1921, zitiert in: Michele Zackheim (*1941) US-amerikanische bildende Künstlerin, Schriftstellerin, Einstein's Daughter. The Search for Lieserl [Einsteins Tochter. Auf der Suche nach Lieserl], S. 66, Riverhead Hardcover, 25. Oktober 1999

• Aus meiner Sicht liegt es im Wesen des Wissenschaftsbetriebs, dass die nachfolgenden Ausführungen teilweise bereits von anderen Verfassern gelöst wurden. Nichtsdestotrotz erlaube ich mir, den durch und durch pedantischen Literaturüberblick zu übergehen, da die hier vorgestellten Themenbereiche aus einem neuen Blickwinkel betrachtet werden.
  Wissenschaftliche Essays von Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy Content?, präsentiert von der Zeitschrift Annalen der Physik, Heft 18, S. 639-641, 1905; Über die vom Relativitätsprinzip geforderte Trägheit der Energie, präsentiert von der Zeitschrift Annalen der Physik, Heft 23, Ausgabe 4, S. 371-384, Zitat S. 373, 1907

• "Sie haben aber doch auf den Knopf gedrückt. ... Ja, ich habe auf den Knopf gedrückt." Albert Einsteins Geständnis an seine Vertraute und Biografin Antonina Vallentin bei ihrem letzten Besuch vor seinem Tod, zitiert in: Artikel Die göttliche Harmonie, präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Der Spiegel, Ausgabe 18, 27. April 1955

• Sie finden es merkwürdig, dass ich die Begreiflichkeit der Welt als Wunder oder ewiges Geheimnis empfinde? Der
  Erfolg der Wissenschaft setzt eine hochgradige Ordnung der objektiven Welt voraus, die a priori zu erwarten man
  keinerlei Berechtigung hatte. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanisch-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Physik-Nobelpreisträger, 1921, Briefe an Maurice Solovine, S.114, Paris [1956], Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1960

Empfehlung

• Du wirst am meisten lernen, wenn Du etwas mit so großer Freude machst, dass Du nicht merkst, dass die Zeit vergeht. Ich bin manchmal so in meine Arbeit vertieft, dass ich das Mittagessen vergesse. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanisch-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Physik-Nobelpreisträger, 1921, Brief an seinen damals elfjährigen Sohn Hans-Albert Einstein, 4. November 1915, zitiert in: Dorie McCullough Lawson, Posterity. Letters of Great Americans to Their Children, Doubleday, May 2004, Anchor reprint issue 22. April 2008

Einsicht

• Wir können Probleme nicht mit den gleichen Denkmustern lösen, die zu ihnen geführt haben.
  Prof. Dr. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanischer-Schweizer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Nobelpreisträger für Physik, 1921, zitiert in: Poeteus

• Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking. All three are seen as distinctive, characterful and pre-
  ternaturally smart men with an endearing playfulness and a readiness to not take themselves too seriously.
  Jenny Rohn has suggested that if we're disappointed to find such behaviour in scientists, it reflects an unrealistic ex-
  pectation that they will be as pristine as their theories.
  For a profession that alleges so strenuously that it’s the ideas, not the people, that count, science is oddly determined
  to create heroes (and the occasional heroine) and celebrate them in the names of institutes and awards. […] [W]hen
  great scientists are acknowledged to have gone too far, they're typically indulged, called "colourful" and "outspoken"
  or remade in the rather romantic image of the flawed genius, and excused by their eminence.
  Article Einstein was a genius of physics. But he wasn’t a saint, präsentiert von der britischen Tageszeitung The Guardian, Philip Ball, 14. June 2018

• According to Michael Fitzgerald, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College in Dublin, a long list of ‘geniuses’ ― including Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Beethoven, Mozart, Hans Christian Andersen, and Immanuel Kant ― all had Asperger syndrome.
  "I'm arguing the genes for autism/Asperger's, and creativity are essentially the same," Fitzgerald apparently told a conference in London.
  Fitzgerald’s proof of this claim is accounts of these geniuses that describe them as loners, difficult, highly focused for decades on a single problem without pay-
  ing attention to others' views (never mind Einstein's sense of humor, seldom seen in Asperger syndrome). Article Did Einstein have autism?, presented by the online publication Spectrum News, Apoorva Mandavilli, 26. February 2008

• Of the 43 letters Einstein wrote to Mileva between 1897 and 1902, 13 contain references to joint research. […]
  This modesty, this subordination, which she showed in her marriage to Albert Einstein, had not always been Mileva's way. As a student, she had spoken quite differently. "I believe that a woman can have a career like a man," she had said in a conversation with friends. And:
  "I think I would be as good a physicist as my male colleagues." To demonstrate her independence, she even went to Heidelberg alone for a semester in 1897. Three years later, she "enthusiastically" (as she wrote to her friend Helene Savic) threw herself into Professor Weber's thesis. Like Albert, she researched in the field of thermodynamics. The diploma thesis was meant to be turned into a doctoral thesis.
  But soon she loses her stride. In the sum-
  mer of 1900 she, the only woman among five candidates, passes the exam and achieves "only" an average grade of
  4 (the best grade is 6). Einstein passed with 4.9. One year later, in the summer of 1901, she tried again and failed again. In August of the same year she [pregnant out of wedlock] breaks down all her tents: she withdraws her dip-
  loma thesis, stops research, leaves the ETH in Zurich, returns home to her parents in Novi Sad. [...]
  Only now, after her marriage, does she become as "gloomy, taciturn and distrustful" as the Einstein biographers describe her. Her friends in Zurich and her fellow student Albert knew the "Gassenbub" quite differently, funny and carefree. [...]
  "I'm glad that my second wife doesn't understand physics," Einstein will say one day. "My first one did."
  Article Mutter der Relativitätstheorie, [Mother of the Relativity Theory], presented by the German feminist magazine Emma,
  Judith Rauch, 1. May 2005

• Albert Einstein is regarded as one of history's greatest geniuses, both for his contributions to humanity's understanding of physics and for his embodiment of the stereotypical traits of the eccentric brainiac. Unfortunately, those stereotypical traits included some serious issues with human interaction, which resulted in Einstein treating the women in his life terribly.
  As the marriage his first wife Mileva Marić, a mathematician, deteriorated, things got simultaneously ugly and ridi-
  culous, culminating in Einstein creating a list of demands that Marić had to adhere to if she wanted him to stay in the
  relationship. The demands themselves were patently misogynistic and downright abusive, effectively meant to curtail
  any and all human interaction between the couple. Crafting a cruel list of demands wasn't Einstein's only offense against Marić however; some historians argue that he also erased her contributions to his groundbreaking theories
  – including the Theory of Relativity.
  When Einstein married Marić, he was already married to his work. Einstein began cheating on Marić almost imme-
  diately. With both of his wives, Einstein showed little remorse about his cheating ways. In fact, he was fairly open
  about his extramarital activities.
  After a temporary split in 1914, after 11 years of marriage, Einstein drafted a list of demands that he presented to
  his wife as conditions for his return to the relationship. The two were open to maintaining the marriage for the sake
  of their two children, but Einstein was not willing to compromise on his vision of a union, which included no respon-
  sibilities for him and plenty of demanding ones for his wife. The rules included demands that Marić act as his per-
  sonal servant.
  Einstein’s #1 goal seemed to be getting his wife to just leave him alone. Unbelievably, Marić agreed to the demands
  for the sake of the children, and the two remained married for another five years.
  Many of Einstein’s demands for his wife seemed to hint at him feeling a sort of inadequacy, and some historians
  believe they know the reason why. Marić was also a physics student of note, and some who knew her assert that
  shewas an uncredited collaborator on a number of her husband’s greatest discoveries. Some even go as far as
  to claim that she deserves credit as a co-author of Einstein’s famous theory of special relativity. This would certain-
  ly explainwhy Einstein wanted her to agree to a document that forced her to never criticize him – or really even
  speak. Their love story was stormy and very romantic. During the first years their marriage was rather rosy and it
  seems they cooperated in research. Albert needed someone with perfect command of mathematics and Mileva
  filled that slot. Later Marcel Grossmann took over. Copies of manuscripts from the miraculous year 1905 exist
  with both their signatures on them, but in the published papers only Albert is credited. The most credible expla-
  nation seems to be that her name was removed by the editors, not by Albert himself. Suppressing women's
  efforts in this way was not uncommon in those days. Article Turns Out Einstein Was A Cold-Hearted Misogynist Who Attempted To Control His Wife's Every Move, presented by
  the stories outlet Medium, Weird History, 27. February 2018

• We have direct evidence from Albert's own pen that the work on relativity theory was a collaboration between Mileva and him.
  James MacKaye (1872-1935) US American engineer, philosopher, cited in: Christopher Jon Bjerknes, Norwegian researcher, author, Albert Einstein. The Incorrigible Plagiarist,
  S. 201, XTX, paperback issue 1. July 2002

• When I read Helmholtz for the first time, it seemed so odd that you were not at my side and today, this is not getting better. I find the work we do together very good, healing and also easier. Albert Einstein in a letter to Mileva Maric, October 1899
• The climate here [in Milan, Italy] does not suit me at all, and while I miss work, I find myself filled with dark thoughts – in other words, I miss having you nearby to kindly keep me in check and prevent me from mean-
  dering. Albert Einstein in a letter to Mileva Maric, 2 October 1899
• I look forward to resume our new common work. You must now continue with your research – how proud I
  will be to have a doctor for my spouse when I’ll only be an ordinary man.
  Albert Einstein in a letter to Mileva Maric, July 1900
• We will send a private copy to Boltzmann to see what he thinks and I hope he will answer us.
  Mileva Maric in a letter to her friend Helene Savić, 20. December 1900
• I will be so happy and proud when we are together and can bring our work on relative motion to a successful conclusion. Albert Einstein in a letter Mileva Maric, 1901; cited in: article Einstein Maric, an unsolved equation. The possible contribution by Mileva Maric to Albert Einstein’s work remains a mystery, presented by the publication Metode, Óscar
  Claver, 3. May 2018
• [Michele Besso] visited his uncle on my behalf, Prof. Jung, one of the most influential physicists in Italy and
  gave him a copy of our article. Albert Einstein in a letter Mileva Maric, 4. April 1901
• How happy and proud I will be when the two of us together will have brought our work on relative motion to a victorious conclusion. Albert Einstein in a letter to Mileva Maric, March 1901
• Before leaving on a trip, we have finished an important work by which my husband will be known all over the world. Mileva Maric referring to the Einstein's common work related to relativity in a letter to her friend Helen Kaufner, 1905
• Before our departure, we finished an important scientific work which will make my husband known around the world. Mileva Maric confiding her father during the Einstein's visit to Novi Sad, 1905
  • In 1908, the Einstein couple constructed with Conrad Habicht an ultra-sensitive voltmeter. Trbuhović-
    Gjurić attributes this experimental work to Mileva and Conrad, and wrote: "When they were both satis-
    fied, they left to Albert the task of describing the apparatus, since he was a patent expert." It was regis-
    tered under the Einstein-Habicht patent. When Habicht questioned Mileva's choice not to include her
    name, she replied making a pun in German: "Warum? Wir beide sind nur ein Stein." ("Why? The two
    of us are but one stone", meaning, we are one entity).
• He [Albert Einstein] is now regarded as the best of the German-speaking physicists, and they give him a lot of honours. I am very happy for his success, because he fully deserves it; I only hope and wish that fame does
  not have a harmful effect on his humanity. […] With all this fame, he has little time for his wife. […] What is
  there to say, with notoriety, one gets the pearl, the other the shell. Mileva Maric in a letter to her friend Helene
  Savić, 3. September 1909, cited in: article by Pauline Gagnon, Ph.D. (*1955) Canadian particle physicist The forgotten
  life of Einstein’s wife, presented by the publication Quantum Diaries, 22. December 2016
• CONDITIONS
  You will make sure:
  that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
  that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
  that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.
  You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons.
  Specifically, You will forego: my sitting at home with you;
  my going out or travelling with you.
  You will obey the following points in your relations with me:
  you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;
  you will stop talking to me if I request it;
  you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.
  You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior.

Albert Einstein in a contract to Mileva Maric, 1914; cited in: Walter Isaacson (*1952) US American president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, journalist, biographer, writer, Einstein. His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, April 2007
In 1914 the Einstein's marriage was strained. He proposed to her to agree to the above list of conditions. Three months later, Mileva left her husband in Berlin and moved, with their sons, to Zurich.

• You made me laugh when you started threatening me with your recollections. Have you ever considered, even just for a second, that nobody would ever pay attention to your says if the man you talked about had not accom-
  plished something important. When someone is completely insignificant, there is nothing else to say to this person but to remain modest and silent. This is what I advise you to do. Albert Einstein in a letter Mileva Maric, after she had threatened his to possibly publishing her memoirs referring to her contributions in their common efforts, 24. October 1925; cited in: article by Pauline Gagnon, Ph.D. (*1955) Canadian particle physicist The forgotten life of Einstein's wife, presented by the publication Quantum Diaries, 22. December 2016; cited also in: Einstein Maric, an unsolved equation.The possible contribution by Mileva Maric to Albert Einstein’s work remains a mystery, presented by the publication Metode, Óscar Claver, 3. May 2018
• When Mileva will no longer be there, I’ll be able to die in peace. Albert Einstein in a letter to Dr Karl Zürcher, his divorce lawyer, July 1947
• Only a life lived for others is worth living. Albert Einstein's only comment upon the news of Mileva Maric's passing, 1948

• Mileva boarded in a pension for women where she met her life-long friends Helene Kaufler-Savić and Milana Bota.
  Both spoke of Albert's continuous presence at Mileva’s place, where he would come freely to borrow books in
  Mileva's absence. Milan Popović, Helene’s grandson, published the letters Mileva exchanged with her throughout
  her life. By the end of their classes in 1900, Mileva and Albert had similar grades (4.7 and 4.6, respectively) except
  in applied physics where she got the top mark of 5 but he, only 1. She excelled at experimental work while he did
  not. But at the oral exam, Professor Minkowski gave 11 out of 12 to the four male students but only 5 to Mileva.
  Only Albert got his degree. Article by Pauline Gagnon, Ph.D. (*1955) Canadian particle physicist The forgotten life of Einstein's wife, presented by the publication Quantum Diaries, 22. December 2016

• According to Krstić⁴, Mileva spoke of her contributions to her mother and sister. She also wrote to her godparents ex-
  plaining how she had always collaborated with Albert and how he had ruined her life, but asked them to destroy the letter. Her son, Hans-Albert, told Krstić how his parents' "scientific collaboration continued into their marriage, and that he remembered seeing [them] work together in the evenings at the same table." Hans-Albert's first wife, Frieda, tried
  to publish the letters Mileva and Albert had sent to their sons but was blocked in court by the Einstein's Estate Execu-
  tors, Helen Dukas and Otto Nathan in an attempt to preserve the "Einstein's myth". They prevented other publications, including one from Krstić on his early findings in 1974. Krstić mentions that Nathan even “visited” Mileva's apartment after her death in 1948. On July 1947, Albert wrote to Dr Karl Zürcher, his divorce lawyer: "When Mileva will no longer be there, I’ll be able to die in peace." Article by Pauline Gagnon, Ph.D. (*1955) Canadian particle physicist The forgotten life
  of Einstein’s wife, presented by the publication Quantum Diaries, 22. December 2016

• In summary, the letters to Marić show Einstein referring to his studies, his ideas, his work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies over a dozen times (and we may add a couple more if we include his letter to Grossmann), as compa-
  red to one reference to our work on the problem of relative motion. John Stachel, editor, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, volume 1, document 94, S. 282, Princeton University Press, 1987, S. 36, 2002

• The history of Mileva Maric is heart-rending. In this case, the famous saying that behind every great man there is a great woman seems to be true. Her life proves that she has quite a lot of involvement in the work of that great genius who was Einstein. She contributed to Einstein’s mathematical work. In fact, it coincides in time, in the sense that his most brilliant contributions took place when he was with Maric. Lorena Segura, mathematician and science populariser of
  the University of Alacant, cited in: article Einstein Maric, an unsolved equation.The possible contribution by Mileva Maric to Albert Einstein’s work remains a mystery, presented by the publication Metode, Óscar Claver, 3. May 2018

• Albert Einstein is universally associated with genius and personal nobility. He won the Nobel prize and worked for world peace. But according to [the biography] Private Lives of Albert Einstein, just published in Britain, the gentle physicist was an adulterous, egomaniacal misogynist who may have even beaten his first wife. There is no question he once described her as a woman of "uncommon ugliness."
  Article Relativity, presented by the Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine, section 6, S. 33, 31. October 1993

• Even in anonymity, though, there is no escaping the family legacy. Albert Einstein, a man of remarkable insights, was also a man of many serious flaws. His quixotic behavior and strained personal relationships loom menacingly over his descen-
  dants. Today the Einsteins are a fractured family. Aude Ascher Einstein is in her seventies and lives in Switzer-
  land. She is now divorced from Bernhard Einstein, the grandson of Albert. We had a friendly, lengthy telephone
  conversation.
  A few days later, though, she wrote to me and retracted her interview. "My family and I myself do not want you or
  anybody to write about our family. Sorry, but it would hurt and be destructive for the already precarious, fragile
  situation of our family. I deeply regret to have talked too much with you on the phone."
  Article Children of a Lesser God. For the offspring of a science deity, the legacy is more burden than blessing., presented by
  the US American general audience science magazine Discover, Michele Zackheim (*1941) US American visual artist, writer,
  12. February 2008

• [Albert Einstein] had a "strained" relationship with his family, according to Eileen K. Morales, curator for the current Ein-
  stein exhibit at the Princeton Historical Society in New Jersey. […] Einstein was also somewhat alienated from his two sons.
  Evelyn Einstein [adopted granddaughter of Albert Einstein] experienced poverty and homelessness and was a self-proclaimed "dumpster diver," all while the estate of her famous grandfather – one of the most iconic figures of all – earned millions.
  Albert Einstein's granddaughter spent the latter part of her life complaining publicly that the man she called "Grampa" had never left her – or the other members of the family – a dime.
  On April 13, 2011 Evelyn Einstein died at the age of 70 in her home in Albany, Calif., still fighting to get a piece of his estate. "I'm outraged," said Evelyn Einstein, who told CNN that she wanted the money to move into an assisted living facility. "It's hard for me to believe they would treat the family the way they [the trustees of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem] have, which has been abysmally." […] She said, "It's not so easy being an Einstein. When I was in school
  at Berkeley in the '60s, I could never tell if men wanted to be with me because of me, or my name. To say, you know,
  'I had an Einstein.'" […] The girl Evelyn likely never had much of a bond with her grandfather, but Albert Einstein did enjoy children. Article Evelyn Einstein Died in Squalor, Despite Grandfather's Riches, presented by the US American broad-
  casting corporation ABC News, Susan Donaldson James, 20. April 2011

• It will be seen that, contrary to popular belief, Einstein played only a minor part in the derivation of the useful formulae in the restricted or special relativity theory, and Whittaker called it the relativity theory of Poincaré and Lorentz.
  Essay by G. Burniston Brown (†1988) British reader of physics, University College, London, What is wrong with relativity?, Bulletin presented by the Institute of Physics and Physical Society, volume 18, S. 71-77, March 1967

• The influence of the crucial Michelson-Morley experiment on my own efforts has been rather indirect. I learned of it through H.A. Lorentz's decisive investigations of the electrodynamics of moving bodies (1895) with which I was acquainted before developing the special theory of relativity.
  Lorentz's basic assumption of an aether at rest seemed to me not convincing in itself and also for the reason that it
  was leading to an interpretation of the Michelson-Morley experiment which seemed to me artifical.
  Albert Einstein in a letter to Robert Shankland, 1952

• Another curious feature of the now famous paper, Einstein, 1905, is the absence of any reference to Poincaré or anyone else. It gives you the impression of quite a new venture. But that is, of course, as I have tried to explain, not true.
  Max Born (1882-1970) German-Jewish physicist, mathematician, instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics, Physics in My Generation, S. 193, Pergamon Press, London, 1956, Springer, 2nd revised edited paperback issue 1. January 1968

• Einstein's explanation is a dimensional disguise for Lorentz's […] Thus Einstein's theory is not a denial of, nor an alternative for, that of Lorentz. It is only a duplicate and disguise for it... Einstein continually maintains that the theory of Lorentz is right, only he disagrees with his 'interpretation'. Is it not clear, therefore, that in this [case], as in other cases Einstein's theory is merely a disguise for Lorentz's, the apparent disagreement about 'interpretation' being a matter of words only? James MacKaye (1872-1935) US American engineer, philosopher, cited in: Christopher Jon Bjerknes, Norwegian re-
  searcher, author, Albert Einstein. The Incorrigible Plagiarist, XTX, paperback issue 1. July 2002

• Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king…
  My conclusions in certain respects differ from and to that extent tend to disprove the Einstein Theory. […] My explanations of natural phenomena are not so involved as his. They are simpler, and when I am ready to make a full announcement it will be seen that I have proved my conclusions. Interview with Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Serbian US American physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer, in-
  ventor, Tesla at 75 , presented by the US American weekly news magazine TIME, S. 27-28, 20. July 1931

• It seems that Einstein believed he was above scientific protocol. He thought he could bend the rules to his own liking and get away with it; hang in there long enough and his enemies would die off and his followers would win the day. In science, the last follower standing wins-and gets to write history. In the case of Einstein, his blatant and repeated dalliance with plagiarism is all but forgotten and his followers have borrowed repeatedly from the discoveries of other scientists and used them to adorn Einstein's halo.
  Article Albert Einstein: Plagiarist of the Century?, presented by blogspot Aulis Online, Richard Moody jr., 2003

• It seems to me that the arguments which have led up to the theory (Relativity), and the whole state of mind of most physicists with regard to it, may some day become one of the puzzles of history.
  Percy Williams Bridman, Ph.D. (1882-1961) US American professor of physics, Nobel Prize laureate, 1946, 1936

• [Albert Einstein] had been recruited by the pioneering Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld, who paid a call on Einstein in Berlin in early 1919. "With extreme naïveté he asked questions," Blumenfeld recalled. Among Einstein's queries: With their intellectual gifts, why should Jews create a homeland that was primarily agricultural? Why did it have to be its own nation-state? Wasn't nationalism the problem rather than the solution? Eventually, Einstein came around. "I am, as a human being, an opponent of nationalism," he told Blumenfeld. "But as a Jew, I am from today a supporter of the
  Zionist effort." He also became, more specifically, an advocate for the creation of a Jewish university in Jerusalem, which became Hebrew University. […]
  Hamburg banker Max Warburg and his New York–based brother Paul tried to help Einstein line up lucrative lectures. They asked both Princeton and the University of Wisconsin for a fee of $15,000. In February of 1921, Max Warburg informed him, "The amount you wish is not possible." Einstein was not terribly upset. "They found my demands too high," he told his friend and fellow physicist Paul Ehrenfest. "I am glad not to have to go there; it really isn't a pretty
  way to make money." [...]  "I am not keen on going to America, but am just doing it on behalf of the Zionists," he wrote
  to his French publisher. "I must serve as famed bigwig and decoy-bird […]. I am doing whatever I can for my tribal
  brethren, who are being treated so vilely everywhere." […]
  The resistance to Einstein's mission came not only from the Brandeis camp of cautious and restrained American Zio-
  nists, but also from successful New York Reform Jews of German heritage, many of whom were opposed to Zionism.
  Article How Einstein Divided America's Jews, presented by the US American magazine The Atlantic, Walter Isaacson (*1952)
  US American president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, journalist, biographer, writer, December issue 2009

• As a prominent booster of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a star fund-
  raiser for the Zionist cause, he [Albert Einstein] became inextricably linked with Zionism. But Einstein's relationship to Judaism and to the Jewish state is complex. Einstein disdained divine revelation, yet he believed in God.
  He recoiled from Orthodox Judaism, but he felt a deep kinship with the Jewish people. He opposed the idea of a Je-
  wish state, yet raised money for the Zionist cause and was invited to become president of Israel. [...] He may
  have rejected Judaic practices and felt alienated from what he described as Germany's "Jewish bourgeois circles,"
  but as a revolutionary and outspoken Jewish scientist, a pacifist and an internationalist, he was pilloried by many
  of his German peers in the 1920s and '30s for his "Jewish science."
  Einstein maintained that he was always a "cosmopolitan, but this nationalism is forced upon us and […] it's a neces-
  sity." "Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the
  Bible could not be true, Einstein later recalled. "The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking, coup-
  led with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies."
  Article What Was Albert Einstein's True Relationship to Judaism — and Zionism?, presented by the BBC's weekly children's maga-
  zine Fast Forward, Paul Berger, 22. November 2015