Another fun Einstein letter: Whittaker was writing a book on the history of the aether and refused to give Einstein credit for relativity. Born was upset but Einstein, in short:
1. People can think what they want
2. I’m content with my efforts
3. I don’t have to read it
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Feels very Stoic - "if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it."
