A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible... read more
“One minute before the end of the world, everyone gathers on the grounds of the Kuntstmuseum. Men, women, and children form a giant circle and hold hands. No one moves. No one speaks. It is so absolutely quiet that each person can hear the heartbeat of the person to his right or his left. This is the last minute of the world.”
“For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.Highlighted by 30 Kindle customers
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.Highlighted by 23 Kindle customers
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.Highlighted by 21 Kindle customers
Where the two times meet, desperation. Where the two times go their separate ways, contentment. For, miraculously, a barrister, a nurse, a baker can make a world in either time, but not in both times. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.Highlighted by 21 Kindle customers
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?Highlighted by 18 Kindle customers
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.Highlighted by 17 Kindle customers
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.Highlighted by 12 Kindle customers
Prologue
1. 19 April 1905
2. 26 April 1905
3. 3 May 1905
4. 4 May 1905
Interlude
1. 11 May 1905
2. 20 May 1905
3. 22 May 1905
4. 29 May 1905
Interlude
1. 2 June 1905
2. 3 June 1905
3. 5 June 1905
4. 9 June 1905
5. 10 June 1905
6. 11 June 1905
7. 17 June 1905
Interlude
1. 18 June 1905
2. 20 June 1905
3. 25 June 1905
4. 27 June 1905
5. 28 June 1905
Epilogue
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