全新版大学英语综合教程3爱因斯坦及其光电效应

3.He always had the music.
Einstein’s love affair with his violin began at the tender age of 5. Lina is what he used to call his violin.
However, like most great love stories, this one, too, began with trouble. The boy didn’t really appreciate drills of violin exercise and one fine day at violin class, the young student, frustrated by the routine threw his chair at the music teacher who left the house in tears.
“If you are not going to read this stuff I will not be annoyed at all; but at least you have to recognize it as a shy attempt to fight against my being a bad letter writer, which I inherited from both my beloved parents.”
There’s a story about a little conversation that took place between two legends, Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein, at a public event. It went somewhat like this:
However, some say Einstein started speaking full sentencee saw his sister, Maja, for the first time in 1881, an excited little Einstein took her for a toy and asked “Yes, but where does it have its small wheels?”
Annoyed by his blatant insubordination, his seventh grade teacher had once said that he would never amount to much in his life—a slight misprediction on the part of the teacher.
Albert Einstein’s Days Of Growing Up
1.He wasn’t much of a talker at the beginning.
Born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, little Einstein couldn’t really pick up our language as early as children normally do. Till the age of 4 Einstein’s struggled to articulate himself with ease and fluency.
Einstein: What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you!
Chaplin: True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say.
2.The little genius had a problem of authority.
If there’s one thing common among the greatest men in the world, it’s the fact that society always struggled to contain their greatness within the tiny cages of closed-mindedness. So was the case with young Einstein as well whose cocky wit and subtle rebellion rubbed his teachers off in the wrong way.
Then, Einstein’s ears were introduced to Mozart’s sonata when he was 12 and thus began his love for music that lasted forever.
4.His first paper.
It was in 1894 that Einstein began his first paper ever—‘On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a Magnetic Field’. Hardly 15, Albert sent the paper to his uncle, Caesar Koch for his expert opinion. He slipped in a letter along with the paper which read…