Men of science more or less agog over results of eclipse observations. Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry.
Efforts made to put in words intelligible to the non-scientific public the Einstein theory of light, proved by the eclipse expedition, have not so far been very successful. The new theory, it is said, does away with Euclid and Newton alike; and yet, when the observations were laid before the Royal Society, its president declared them one of the most momentous pronouncements of human thought.
When he was asked how many persons in the world could understand his theory, Dr. Einstein is reported to have replied that there were The arithmetic is likelier the reporter’s than Einstein’s. .