Einstein's Light and Dark Sides

Sure, he was pretty good at science. But science isn't everything

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 313 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “Who was Einstein, Really?” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 313 No. 3 (), p. 80
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0915-80