See the world as it really is

1 THE WORLD AS I SEE IT Albert Einstein PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION Only individuals have a sense of responsibility. Nietzsche This book does not represent a complete collection of the articles, addresses, and pronouncements of Albert Einstein; it is a selection made with a definite object namely, to give a picture of a man. To-day this man is being drawn, contrary to his own intention, into the whirlpool of political passions and contemporary history. As a result, Einstein is experiencing the fate that so many of the great men of history experienced: his character and opinions are being exhibited to the world in an utterly distorted form. To forestall this fate is the real object of this book. It meets a wish that has constantly been expressed both by Einstein's friends and by the wider public. It contains work belonging to the most various dates the article on "The International of Science" dates from the year 1922, the address on "The Principles of Scientific Research" from 1923, the "Letter to an Arab" from 1930 and the most various spheres, held together by the unity of the personality which stands behind all these utterances. Albert Einstein believes in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutual helpfulness, and in the high mission of science. This book is intended as a plea for this belief at a time which compels every one of us to overhaul his mental attitude and his ideas. J. H. 2 INTRODUCTION TO ABRIDGED EDITION In his biography of Einstein Mr. H. Gordou Garbedian relates that an American newspaper man asked the great physicist for a definition of his theory of relativity in one sentence. Einstein replied that it would take him three days to give a short definition of relativity. He might well have added that unless his questioner had an intimate acquaintance with mathematics and physics, the definition would be incomprehensible. To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not understand a single sentence. Einstein, therefore, is great in the public eye partly because he has made revolutionary discoveries which cannot be translated into the common tongue. We stand in proper awe of a man whose thoughts move on heights far beyond our range, whose achievements can be measured only by the few who are able to follow his reasoning and challenge his conclusions. There is, however, another side to his personality. It is revealed in the addresses, letters, and occasional writings brought together in this book. These fragments form a mosaic portrait of Einstein the man. Each one is, in a sense, complete in itself; it presents his views on some aspect of progress, education, peace, war, liberty, or other problems of universal interest. Their combined effect is to demonstrate that the Einstein we can all understand is no less great than the Einstein we take on trust. Einstein has asked nothing more from life than the freedom to pursue his researches into the mechanism of the universe. His nature is of rare simplicity and sincerity; he always has been, and he remains, genuinely indifferent to wealth and fame and the other prizes so dear to ambition. At the same time he is no recluse, shutting himself off from the sorrows and agitations of the world around him. Himself familiar from early years with the handicap of poverty and with some of the worst forms of man's inhumanity to man, he has never spared See the world as it really is See the world as it really is Bởi: Joe Tye “As I grew older and more experienced, I realized that the ability to distinguish between real and apparent dangers is fundamental to good judgment, and people who don’t possess it are seriously handicapped They dwell in a state of incipient catastrophe, thinking only of what can go wrong and trying to ward it off before it occurs They aren’t masters of reality, although they like to think they are; they’re masters of unreality because they let their fears, which are figments of an untrustworthy imagination, govern their lives.” Richard Bode: First You Have to Row a Little Boat Here’s my definition of objectivity: to see the world as it really is – not as it used to be, as you think it should be, as you wish it were, or as you fear it might become As it really is This is, as you might guess, more challenging than it seems Here’s a little game that will help you be more objective: play reporter Anytime you feel that your emotions are getting the best of you, pull out a pen and a steno pad and start making notes as if you were a reporter who had to write a newspaper article about the situation Journalists (as opposed to editorial writers) are not allowed to inject their opinions into their articles: they must be observant and they must be objective Playing reporter will help you be both: be more observant and be more objective about what you see There’s an added benefit: when you are in an emotionally charged state, you are more likely to say or things that you later regret If you write the words down in your steno pad instead of saying them out loud you’ll have less to regret later on 1/1 [...]... Viewed from another angle, political conflict between Iran and the Ottoman Empire did not prevent Ottoman courtly society from modelling itself on Iranian patterns, with the palace of Timur’s grandson Husayn Bay k ara the 12 ~ THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE WORLD AROUND IT ~ epitome of elegance and refinement A study of Ottoman ways of relating to the outside world must take these eastern and southern linkages... Ottoman world economy with its neighbours to the east 16 ~ THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE WORLD AROUND IT ~ ~ The abiding centrality of Istanbul Braudel’s world economies are supposed to possess but one capital and central region; whenever there are two rival centres, the world economy in question is emerging, decaying or else in the process of transition.55 It is of some interest to try to fit the Ottoman world. .. case, it does not make sense to assume that sultan and 8 ~ THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE WORLD AROUND IT ~ grand vizier were operating at cross-purposes, but rather that the rescript conveys the official Ottoman understanding of the situation, while the letter of the grand vizier is a move in the process of actual negotiation In most cases, though, we only possess the rescript, and this makes the Ottomans... of other Ottoman cities Istanbul, but also certain other metropolises such as Aleppo and Izmir thus were turned into the avenues of entry through which, in the closing decades of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman world economy was definitely annexed to the conquering ‘high capitalism’ centred in London and Paris 18 ~ THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE WORLD AROUND IT ~... had to concern themselves intensively with developments that took place in localities outside the Empire s borders 2 ~ THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE WORLD AROUND IT ~ ~ Islamic law and sultanic pragmatism In Islamic religious law (şeriat) and also in Ottoman official writing, it was customary to describe the world as being made up of the Darülislam ( the house of Islam’) and the Darülharb ( the house of... Venice or, later, France There was also the ‘real’ luxury trade, which quite often shaded off into diplomatic gift exchanges, and concerned items like the Ottoman carpets so appreciated by This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. Numerical-analytic technique for investigation of solutions of some nonlinear equations with Dirichlet conditions Boundary Value Problems 2011, 2011:58 doi:10.1186/1687-2770-2011-58 Andrei Ronto (ronto@math.cas.cz) Miklos Ronto (matronto@gold.uni-miskolc.hu) Gabriela Holubova (gabriela@kma.zcu.cz) Petr Necesal (pnecesal@kma.zcu.cz) ISSN 1687-2770 Article type Research Submission date 26 May 2011 Acceptance date 28 December 2011 Publication date 28 December 2011 Article URL http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/1/58 This peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). For information about publishing your research in Boundary Value Problems go to http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/authors/instructions/ For information about other SpringerOpen publications go to http://www.springeropen.com Boundary Value Problems © 2011 Ronto et al. ; licensee Springer. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Numerical-analytic technique for investigation of solu- tions of some nonlinear equations with Dirichlet condi- tions Andrei Ront´o 1 , Miklos Ront´o 2 , Gabriela Holubov´a and Petr Neˇcesal ∗3 1 Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Analysis, University of Miskolc, Egyetemvaros, Hungary 3 Department of Mathematics, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic ∗ Corresponding author: pnecesal@kma.zcu.cz Email addresses: AR: ronto@math.cas.cz MR: matronto@gold.uni-miskolc.hu GH: gabriela@kma.zcu.cz Abstract The article deals with approximate solutions of a nonlinear ordinary differential equation with homogeneous Dirich- let boundary conditions. We provide a scheme of numerical-analytic method based upon successive approximations constructed in analytic form. We give sufficient conditions for the solvability of the problem and prove the uni- form convergence of the approximations to the parameterized limit function. We provide a justification of the polynomial version of the method with several illustrating examples. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 34B15; 65L10. Keywords: nonlinear boundary value problem; numerical-analytic method; Chebyshev interpolation polynomials. 1 Introduction In studies of solutions of various types of nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equa- tions side by side with numerical methods, it is often used an appropriate technique based upon some types 1 of successive approximations constructed in analytic form. This class of methods includes, in particular, the approach suggested at first in [1,2] for investigation of periodic solutions. Later, appropriate versions of this method were developed for handling more general types of nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary and functional-differential equations. We refer, e.g., to the books [3–5], the articles [6–12], and the series of survey articles [13] for the related references. According to the basic idea, the given boundary value problem is replaced by the Cauchy This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. High resolution CT and histological findings in idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: features and differential diagnosis Respiratory Research 2011, 12:111 doi:10.1186/1465-9921-12-111 Piciucchi S (s.piciucchi@alice.it) Tomassetti S (s.tomassetti@ausl.fo.it) Casoni G (g.casoni@ausl.fo.it) Sverzellati N (n.sverzellati@unipr.it) Carloni A (angelo.carloni@gmail.com) Dubini A (a.dubini@ausl.fo.it) Gavelli G (g.gavelli@irst.emr.it) Cavazza A (alberto.cavazza@asmn.re.it) Chilosi M (marco.chilosi@univr.it) Poletti V (venerino.poletti@gmail.com) ISSN 1465-9921 Article type Letter to the Editor Submission date 18 February 2011 Acceptance date 23 August 2011 Publication date 23 August 2011 Article URL http://respiratory-research.com/content/12/1/111 This peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). 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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1 High resolution CT and histological findings in idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: features and differential diagnosis Piciucchi S 1 , Tomassetti S 2 , Casoni G 2 , Sverzellati N 3 , Carloni A 4 , Dubini A 5 , Gavelli G 1 , Cavazza A 6 , Chilosi M 7 , Poletti V 2 1. Department of Radiology, Scientific Institute for study and treatment of Cancer-IRST; Via Piero Maroncelli 40-42; 47014; Meldola-Forlì; Italy 2. Department of Pulmonology; Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital; Via Carlo Forlanini 34, 47121; Forlì; Italy 3. Department of Radiology; University of Parma; Via Gramsci 14; 43100; Parma, Italy 4. Department of Radiology; Santa Maria Hospital; Via Tristano di Joannuccio 1, 05100; Terni, Italy 5. Department of Pathology; Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital; Via Carlo Forlanini 34, 47121; Forlì; Italy 6. Department of Pathology; Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova; Viale Risorgimento 57; 42100; Reggio Emilia; Italy 7. Department of Pathology; University of Verona; Piazzale A. Stefani 1; 37126; Verona; Italy Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author: Sara Piciucchi, MD Dpt. Radiology IRST, Scientific Institute for Treatment and Study of Cancer Via Maroncelli 40-42 Meldola-Forlì s.piciucchi@alice.it piciucchi.sara@gmail.com ABSTRACT ABSTRACTABSTRACT ABSTRACT Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a recently described clinical-pathologic entity characterized by pleural and subpleural parenchymal fibrosis, mainly in the upper lobes. As this disease is extremely rare (only 7 cases have been described in the literature to date) poorly defined cases of IPPFE can go unrecognized. The clinical course of disease is progressive and prognosis is poor, with no therapeutic options other than lung transplantation currently available, yet. The aim of this report