A Song for Molly

Jeremy Bernstein

• 29 oktober 2020
• 9789811218941

Samenvatting:

A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgenstein, Einstein and Goedel, to trying to live with a dog named Molly. The science is serious although the tone is whimsical. The spirit of this book can be demonstrated by a conversation between Einstein and his assistant Ernst Straus:' 'You know Goedel has really gone crazy.' So I said, 'Well, what worse could he have done?' 'He voted for Eisenhower.' '