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Article: Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology.(Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 3, 2000
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Einstein and Religion: Physics And Theology. By Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 268 pp., $22.95.
AS A SYMBOL of scientific genius, Albert Einstein the public icon has had as great an effect on 20th-century thought as his theories have had on modern science. Einstein is famous not only because he developed a new theory of gravity, but also because he was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany and a pacifist who nevertheless felt compelled to write the fateful letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt advocating research into making an atomic bomb.
Both Einstein the scientist and Einstein the public icon are the subject of Max Jammer's Einstein and ...