EINSTEIN’S CONCEPTS
Late speech ability GV ZP.A.-R«uler—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March 28. Albert Einstein’s inability to speak until he was three helped him to break new ground later with concepts of space, time and energy, the “New York Times” said yesterday. This opinion came in the first of three articles in the paper on a collection of thousands of Einstein’s letters, notebooks, and manuscripts to be published by Princeton University Press. The papers told of Einstein as a child whose inability, or unwillingness, to speak led to the development of an extraordinary capacity for nonverbal conceptualisation, the “New York Times” said.
Such use of abstract concepts, rather than words, enabled him to break free from methods of thought that prevented others seeing the limitations of concepts rooted in direct human experience.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32880, 1 April 1972, Page 17
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