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  • Besides, the Grail has been Teabing's life, and hearing the story of the Holy Grail from Leigh Teabing will be like hearing the theory of relativity from Einstein himself.†   (source)
  • Bobo's not Einstein.†   (source)
  • Think about it, Einstein.†   (source)
  • Now, Juli Baker did not wind up on the front page of the Mayfield Times for being an eighth-grade Einstein, like you might suspect.†   (source)
  • I mean, if you look at all the great people in history — Einstein, Michelangelo, Emily Dickinson — then you're looking at a bunch of weird people.†   (source)
  • Momma even forced Byron to take me with him when him and Buphead played basketball, but you didn't have to be Albert Einstein to figure out that the only reason the big guys were playing with me was because Byron had threatened them when my back was turned.†   (source)
  • It was made of string, but it had more contortions, ins and outs, twists and turns and dips and doodles than the brain of Albert Einstein himself.†   (source)
  • Capital of science, seat of the fuhrer, nursery to Einstein, Staudinger, Bayer.†   (source)
  • Fate had delivered Alberta Einstein into his life and he had to figure out a way to take advantage of that.†   (source)
  • When I failed to become a concert pianist, or even an accompanist for the church youth choir, she finally explained that I was late-blooming, like Einstein, who everyone thought was retarded until he discovered a bomb.†   (source)
  • Einstein one fifty.†   (source)
  • You've got the football I.Q. of Einstein.†   (source)
  • A cross between PelÉ and Einstein!†   (source)
  • She said he probably thought I looked familiar but couldn't place my face without the cement block walls of Albert Einstein High behind me.†   (source)
  • I know I'm not the first to realize it and far from the most famous, and my realization had nothing to do with energy or mass or the speed of light or anything else Einstein might have postulated.†   (source)
  • Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • He was a distinguished anthropologist, but putting him in charge of the Midway, Bloom said years later, "was about as intelligent a decision as it would be today to make Albert Einstein manager of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus."†   (source)
  • And so she chattered easily and knowledgeably about things of interest to students—this new theory of relativity by a man called Einstein, and whether Admiral Peary would really reach the North Pole.†   (source)
  • It doesn't take Albert Einstein to know that if something is growing and using nutrients, it's life.†   (source)
  • "The whole point of Sir Albert Einstein," he said, "is how can the sun be up if you're standing on the sun?"†   (source)
  • Albert Einstein Oh my soul …. be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.†   (source)
  • You know—by Einstein?†   (source)
  • The passage is from a 1918 speech by a young German scientist named Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • Einstein!†   (source)
  • You were thinking about Einstein's theory of relativity" Sometimes she can be funny.†   (source)
  • Albert Einstein Fighting the urge to throw up, Dan tore through the rest of his notebooks, scanning the pages for any more disturbing asides.†   (source)
  • 'Different kind of oil, Einstein,' Drew said.†   (source)
  • The agencies—which include the International Rescue Committee, the organization founded in 1933 by Albert Einstein to help bring Jewish refugees from Europe to the United States, as well as World Relief, Lutheran Family Services, and others—are contracted by the government to help refugee families settle in to their new lives.†   (source)
  • In one, Einstein is pictured over the words GRAVITY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR FALLING IN LOVE.†   (source)
  • Nor, however, does using a computer at home turn a child into Einstein: the ECLS data show no correlation between computer use and school test scores.†   (source)
  • Colin thought of Einstein.†   (source)
  • Finally, one dad had a burst of inspiration: "Einstein!†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Einstein," Lucas grumbled.†   (source)
  • When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.†   (source)
  • Tomas, who had spent the last ten years of his medical practice working exclusively with the human brain, knew that there was nothing more difficult to capture than the human I. There are many more resemblances between Hitler and Einstein or Brezhnev and Solzhenitsyn than there are differences.†   (source)
  • Over the maps was the large picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt I had cut out of a New York Times Sunday magazine section, and next to it was the picture of Albert Einstein I had taken years ago from an issue of Junior Scholastic.†   (source)
  • For example, many important people throughout history were considered different, such as Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Already he was being compared to Einstein and to Bohr as a scientist with a conscience,, an overview, an appreciation of the significance: of events.†   (source)
  • My father told me that Mr. Einstein sat in this very chair and played the violin.†   (source)
  • In the 1950s, Lenny Bruce used do a stand-up act using a Southern accent while pretending to be Albert Einstein explaining relativity: "Y'all wanna hear about nooclear fishin?†   (source)
  • They paid her no mind as she walked through the lab into another hall and then entered a large office where Monique bent over a thick ream of photos with a scientist who vaguely resembled Einstein, bushy hair, spectacles, and all.†   (source)
  • "Bingo, Mr. Einstein," Mark said, pacing the room.†   (source)
  • Not that Mick is a total dolt, but he isn't exactly Einstein, either.†   (source)
  • You'd just throw a child to the wolves if he's not Einstein?"†   (source)
  • With the cameras rolling, he walks toward the center describing Einstein's general theory of relativity and goes into some facts—black holes are the remnants of former stars; they're so dense that not even light can escape; they lurk inside every galaxy; they're the most destructive force in the cosmos; as a black hole passes through space, it engulfs everything that comes too close to it, stars, comets, planets.†   (source)
  • Einstein just used plain soap like this.†   (source)
  • The effect is quite fundamental: it was discovered by the great Einstein more than a hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • Einstein's my son.†   (source)
  • I mean, suppose Albert Einstein drops everything to help with your algebra, pal, or Rand Corporation and General Electric team up to devise visual aids to make something easier for you.†   (source)
  • You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.†   (source)
  • Einstein.†   (source)
  • Richard was the miracle son, the gift from God, the Einstein to disprove Einstein.   (source)
  • And Pasteur and Madame Curie and Einstein!   (source)
  • He's five times smarter than that Einstein was.   (source)
  •   "What's E = mc2?"
      "Einstein's equation."   (source)
  • Time magazine named Einstein "Person of the Century" in 1999.
  • "You must be Einstein or somebody," I said.†   (source)
  • How you disproved that Einstein theory using tuna fish.†   (source)
  • Today, the list of modern "fellows" was no less impressive—Einstein, Hawking, Bohr, and Celsius.†   (source)
  • Langan's IQ is 30 percent higher than Einstein's.†   (source)
  • But Einstein understood that nature does not.†   (source)
  • Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought.†   (source)
  • But you actually have more to confess about Einstein than I do.†   (source)
  • Maybe he'll blow up Albert Einstein High School as a senior prank.†   (source)
  • He told Einstein he had always dreamed of studying in America; how wonderful everything was!†   (source)
  • You don't have to be no Einstein to get paid.†   (source)
  • A lesser scientist than Einstein might have said, "But scientific knowledge comes from nature.†   (source)
  • Disprove any more of Einstein's theories?" one shouted.†   (source)
  • Later Saturday Night, Girls' Room, Albert Einstein High School Why?†   (source)
  • The religion of the future, Einstein had predicted, will be a cosmic religion.†   (source)
  • But that doesn't mean Langan is 30 percent smarter than Einstein.†   (source)
  • Once the soliloquy was completed, Kazem asked Professor Einstein if he knew anything about Iran.†   (source)
  • He and Einstein had only one very brief conversation.†   (source)
  • Einstein, Bohr, and Hawking are modern geniuses.†   (source)
  • If it were, Chris Langan would be up there with Einstein.†   (source)
  • Three Body: Einstein, the Pendulum Monument, and the Great Rip†   (source)
  • His meeting with Albert Einstein had confirmed his suspicion that anything is possible in America.†   (source)
  • "You said you wanted to stay at Albert Einstein!" he kind of yelled.†   (source)
  • Did Einstein really mean to state that truth was a function of time?†   (source)
  • The Shamanic texts predict Einstein's 'remote influence' in terms of healing at a distance.†   (source)
  • Einstein began playing again, picking up right where he had stopped.†   (source)
  • But God was clearly smiling on Albert Einstein, who unintentionally threw Kazem for a loop.†   (source)
  • But at everybody else at Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • I was wearing my uniform from Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • The morning of November 13, 1922, he accompanied Einstein on a walk along Nanjing Road.†   (source)
  • Compared to us two theoreticians, Einstein and Hawking are mere applied engineers.†   (source)
  • They're shining these big bright lights all over the steps to Albert Einstein's.†   (source)
  • After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.†   (source)
  • He is the best-looking boy in Albert Einstein High School.†   (source)
  • In the winter of 1922, Einstein visited Shanghai.†   (source)
  • It was really weird when we pulled up to Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • "There's no one in there," Einstein said, still playing.†   (source)
  • The most commonly asked question at Albert Einstein High School is "Do you have any gum?"†   (source)
  • We're probably like the only people who go to Albert Einstein's who drove.†   (source)
  • Einstein is a reactionary academic authority.†   (source)
  • Because your father spoke fluent German, he was asked to accompany Einstein on his tour.†   (source)
  • So, in a way, Einstein can be said to have indirectly been your teacher.†   (source)
  • I'm Einstein, a pitiful man full of faith in God, though abandoned by Him."†   (source)
  • The speaker was Einstein, waving his violin.†   (source)
  • "Thanks for the update, Einstein," Mike grumbled.†   (source)
  • Of course, Einstein had postulated that time was relative, and he supposed that could explain it.†   (source)
  • He is the author of Einstein's Dreams and A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit.†   (source)
  • Spence knew that teams sometimes had an Einstein, Jr., a single kid who knew all the answers.†   (source)
  • He said he admired my knowledge of Freud but that in science no one was God, not even Einstein.†   (source)
  • His hair was too long, and his T-shirt had a picture of Einstein's face on it.†   (source)
  • Think about it, Einstein, my fellow Albert.†   (source)
  • " What did Einstein mean by "the mysterious"?†   (source)
  • Albert Einstein is part of the world, I told myself.†   (source)
  • Over on the radio side the producer's saying, "See that thing in the paper last week about Einstein?†   (source)
  • Einstein taught for many years at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.†   (source)
  • Einstein once wrote, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.†   (source)
  • Merwin recalled taking the equipment to Albert Einstein's house in Princeton, New Jersey.†   (source)
  • I said, 'I'm lecturing to Albert Einstein on physics!'†   (source)
  • ALBERT EINSTEIN, AS FEATURED IN THE 1950S SERIES.†   (source)
  • Einstein must've used a fresh blade every morning.†   (source)
  • Me and Einstein been working on it, a little.†   (source)
  • "Name's Tommy," Miller said, "but we call him Einstein.†   (source)
  • Einstein was a smart man and what was good enough for Einstein is good enough for me.†   (source)
  • He scraped at his beard, winced, and said, "Einstein must have had an awfully good razor.†   (source)
  • I'll bet Einstein never shaved with a hunting knife.†   (source)
  • "Did you know that Einstein never used shaving soap?" he said.†   (source)
  • Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • On the side wall, two additional brass cruciforms flanked a poster of Albert Einstein, his famous quote reading, GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE.†   (source)
  • This intrepid reporter was present three weeks into Dale Thornton's third try at seventh grade, when the young Einstein bet this reporter and several other members of the class that he could keep a wad of chewingtobacco in his mouth from the beginning of fifth period Social Studies until the bell.†   (source)
  • And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom").†   (source)
  • -ALBERT EINSTEIN   (source)
  • "When we were in junior high," I tell her, "Sarah Byrnes got sick of every new Einstein at school thinking he was the only genius in the world to figure out this great pun about her last name and her condition.†   (source)
  • They see us as nothing but a quaint shopping district-an odd perception if you consider the nationalities of men like Einstein, Galileo, and Newton.†   (source)
  • Einstein had said: Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world.†   (source)
  • The introduction to the 1 vs. 100 episode pointed out that Einstein had an IQ of 150 and Langan has an IQ of 195.†   (source)
  • Recently she disproved one of Einstein's fundamental theories by using atomically synchronized cameras to observe a school of tuna fish.†   (source)
  • Professor Einstein asked my father to tell him a little bit about the Fulbright program, the key words here being "little bit."†   (source)
  • Katherine Solomon had read every word Einstein had ever written and was struck by his profound respect for the mystical, as well as his predictions that the masses would one day feel the same.†   (source)
  • Einstein and tuna fish?†   (source)
  • It was as if he were contemplating that serene mountain landscape Einstein had described, and suddenly between the mountains had appeared a fissure, a gap of pure nothing.†   (source)
  • Albert Einstein possessed, according to my father, deep, penetrating eyes; he spoke in a deliberate and gentle manner.†   (source)
  • My little Einstein.†   (source)
  • But Einstein denied this too.†   (source)
  • I'm talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all anticipating a transformative moment of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Through the mountainous questions of reality and knowledge had passed great figures of civilization, some of whom, like Socrates and Aristotle and Newton and Einstein, were known to almost everyone, but most of whom were far more obscure.†   (source)
  • When trying to impress the likes of Albert Einstein, one pretends to know what the genius is talking about, especially when it pertains to the country one is representing thanks to a Fulbright grant.†   (source)
  • About this Einstein had said, "Evolution has shown that at any given moment out of all conceivable constructions a single one has always proved itself absolutely superior to the rest," and let it go at that.†   (source)
  • I mean, even though everybody at Albert Einstein High School thinks I'm a freak, I'm sort of getting used to it.†   (source)
  • There were more reporters than ever in front of Albert Einstein when Hans pulled up in front of it this morning.†   (source)
  • But then Mr. G started talking about what it would be like to see certain people from Albert Einstein in their pajamas.†   (source)
  • When Lars and I walked out of Albert Einstein after my review session there were reporters all over the place.†   (source)
  • "We can't stay in this terrible place anymore," Einstein said, crouched down on the ground like an old beggar.†   (source)
  • He said I have to stay at Albert Einstein, and Lars will go to class with me and protect me from reporters.†   (source)
  • When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was Saturday night, but there shouldn't be THAT much traffic in front of Albert Einstein's, right?†   (source)
  • They don't have any friends, except each other, and they never go on dates"only unlike me, I think this is by choice: No one at Albert Einstein is smart enough for them"except, again, for each other.†   (source)
  • According to your father, Einstein stood there for a long time after hearing the answer, watching the boy's mechanical movements, not even bothering to smoke his pipe as the embers went out.†   (source)
  • And soon, our table, which had consisted only of two geeky girls and their bodyguards, was being graced by the most beautiful people in Albert Einstein"maybe even in all of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • You told me many times that your father went into physics because of Einstein's encouragement, and you chose physics because of your father's influence.†   (source)
  • "Comrades, revolutionary youths, revolutionary faculty and staff, we must clearly understand the reactionary nature of Einstein's theory of relativity.†   (source)
  • Still, it's going to be tough explaining to Lilly why I won't be there to hold the camera when she confronts Mr. and Mrs. Ho, owners of Ho's Deli, across the street from Albert Einstein, about their unfair pricing policies.†   (source)
  • I pointed out to her that it was a school dance, not an inauguration ball or anything, and that it wasn't even a prom, just a stupid dance to celebrate the diversity of the various racial and cultural groups that attend Albert Einstein High School.†   (source)
  • Once I had a dream I was Britney, and I was performing in the auditorium at Albert Einstein, and I had this little pink minidress on, and Josh Richter complimented me on it right before I went onstage.†   (source)
  • Then, just when I thought I couldn't stand it another minute, that I was going to DIE of embarrassment right there on the steps of Albert Einstein High School, Josh lifted up his head, waved to the reporters, opened the doors to the school, and pushed me inside.†   (source)
  • Lilly has discovered that Mr. and Mrs. Ho give significant discounts to the Asian students who go to Albert Einstein, but no discounts at all to the Caucasian, African American, Latino, or Arab students.†   (source)
  • Mr. G says Principal Gupta finally had to call the police, because Albert Einstein High is private property and the reporters were trespassing all over, dropping cigarette butts on the steps and blocking the sidewalk and leaning on Joe and stuff.†   (source)
  • They've been trying to interview all the kids who go to Albert Einstein, asking them if they know me (for once, being unpopular pays off; I can't imagine they were able to find anybody who could actually remember who I was"at least, not with my new nontriangular hair).†   (source)
  • He's in fifth period Gifted and Talented class with me and Lilly, which is the biggest joke of a class, because Mrs. Hill, who's in charge of the G & T program at Albert Einstein, doesn't care what we do as long as we don't make too much noise.†   (source)
  • They used my school photo, and let me tell you, my mom wasn't too happy about that, since that meant either somebody in our family, to whom she sent copies of that photo"which looks bad for Grandm"re"or someone at Albert Einstein must have leaked it, which looks bad for Mr. Gianini.†   (source)
  • The only person at Albert Einstein High School who gets dropped off by a chauffeur is this totally rich Saudi Arabian girl named Tina Hakim Baba, whose dad owns some big oil company, and everybody makes fun of her because her parents are all worried she'll get kidnapped between Seventy-fifth and Madison, where our school is, and Seventy-fifth and Fifth, where she lives.†   (source)
  • It goes like this: I, the undersigned, Artur Christoff Phillipe Gerard Grimaldi Renaldo, agree that my sole offspring and heir, Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, may finish out her high school tenure at Albert Einstein School for Boys (made coeducational circa 1975) without interruption, save for Christmas and summer breaks, which she will spend without complaint in the country of Genovia.†   (source)
  • Engineer says, "What Einstein?"†   (source)
  • The Roman general wanted to spare Archimedes, because he was so valuable—sort of like the Einstein of the ancient world—but some stupid Roman soldier killed him.†   (source)
  • Finally, they were rescued by a Titan janitor named Bob who had Einstein hair, silver eyes, and wicked broom skills.†   (source)
  • If I were to show you a picture of Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein, you'd recognize both faces in a fraction of a second.†   (source)
  • -ALBERT EINSTEIN EPILOGUE.†   (source)
  • Assemble this rifle, Einstein.†   (source)
  • Albert Einstein once observed that westerners have a feeling the individual loses his freedom if he joins, say, a union or any group.†   (source)
  • If I were to show you a picture of Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein, you'd recognize both faces in a fraction of a second.†   (source)
  • A certifiable genius (who was definitely never a prodigy), Einstein had figured out that light can act, in a seeming paradox, both as a discrete particle and as a wave.†   (source)
  • Thus Einstein published his theories of relativity in 1905-15, forty years before his work culminated in the end of a war, the start of an age, and the beginnings of a crisis.†   (source)
  • For his regular column in Scientific American, he'd interviewed Nobel laureates, explained the theories of Stephen Hawking and Einstein in lay terms, and had once been credited with sparking the groundswell of public opinion that led the FDA to remove a dangerous antidepressant from the market.†   (source)
  • The Titan was ten feet tall, with wild silver Einstein hair, pure silver eyes, and muscular arms protruding from a ripped-up blue janitor's uniform.†   (source)
  • It's the first time I really understand what Einstein said about relativity, how time bends around and stretches out like a gummy bear.†   (source)
  • Einstein once observed that Westerners have a feeling the individual loses his freedom if he joins, say, a union or any group.†   (source)
  • They presented a petition to the President in 1964, in a letter consciously patterned after the Einstein letter to Roosevelt, in 1940, concerning the atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • It always sounded like a crazy idea: everybody happy and reunited, Fred Astaire and Einstein doing a tango on the clouds, that kind of stuff.†   (source)
  • They'd wanted to give George Metesky a wig, a mustache and spectacles to make him look like Einstein.†   (source)
  • On the right-hand wall of the vestibule, just inside the doors, there was a mural of the history of great ideas, beginning with a drawing of Moses holding the Ten Commandments, going on to Jesus, Mohammed, Galileo, Luther, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and ending with Einstein gazing at the formula E = MC2.†   (source)
  • I started setting up, and Dr. Einstein, who was a very amiable man, was chatting with me and expressed curiosity about tape recording, which was fairly new in those days.†   (source)
  • I am paraphrasing Einstein.†   (source)
  • ALBERT EINSTEIN published his general theory of relativity in 1916, profoundly affecting the study of physics and cosmology for years.†   (source)
  • These were heard alongside an astonishing array of famous names, including ex-presidents Hoover and Truman, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, popular actors such as Dick Powell and Barbara Stanwyck, sports figures such as baseball Hall of Famers Bobby Doerr and Jackie Robinson, literary giants such as Thomas Mann and Carl Sandburg, and a slew of Nobel laureates, including Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • I wish we'd brought Einstein with us.†   (source)
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