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Albert Einstein and the Contemporary Macromolecular Science

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New window to the world

  When the reader has read up to this point, he could have an impression that - following an old habit - I do exercises of mental gymnastics by which it was customary to show how Marx-Leninist dialectical materialism is essential for every science except the bourgeois non-scientific fields (like genetics or cybernetics). But there is a distinction here. A real discovery (and Einstein made several of them) cannot but rock all understanding miles around and its greatness can be deduced from our commonplace use of them. In addition to these discoveries, there is an example of scientific attitude, which Einstein gave to all of us much minor ones: an example of seriousness and depth he applied when examining the essence of seemingly trivial phenomena, combined with a great courage to see it in an utterly new way, even if it were against the belief of the whole world. We hardly can imitate Einstein in his genius - one has it or not but one cannot learn it; but in a serious effort to contribute to the understanding of the world (even though in a tiny field we can manage) and in the courage to resist the habitual way of thinking even if it is guaranteed by well-known names, Einstein gives a good example to all of us, macromolecular science included.

 

 

 

Jaroslav Køíž