Signal Moment"After we had been talking for about twenty minutes in Einstein's home," physicist L. L. Whyte once recalled, "the maid came in with a huge bowl of soup. I wondered what was happening and I thought that this was probably a signal for me to leave.
"But when the girl left the room Einstein said to me in a conspiratprial whisper, 'That's a trick. If I am bored talking to somebody, when the maid comes in I don't push the bowl of soup away and the girl takes whomever I am with away and I am free.'
"Einstein pushed the bowl away, and so I was quite happy and much flattered and more at my ease for the rest of the talk."
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (Physics, 1921) [noted for his revolutionary special (1905) and general (1915) theories of relativity which revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed the theoretical basis for the production of atomic energy]
[Sources: L. L. Whyte in G. Whitrow's Einstein]More Albert Einstein anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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