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Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
"When I wrote NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON I started the book out with a tentative cosmic inventory: What do we know? I had designed my book from the whole to the particular. And I wrote in there, in the chapter about E=mc² and Mrs. Murphy…, and about Einstein’s ‘Cosmic Religious Sense,’ the article he had done for the New York Times Magazine on the nonanthropomorphic idea of God, about how Johannes Kepler, though a heretic had such faith and inspiration alone with the stars… Fear and longing… I got permission to run that piece. What I wrote in the book was that in due course Einstein would affect all our everyday life.
“Christopher Morley had persuaded Lippincott, here in Philadelphia to publish my book, but they balked at the chapter on Einstein. They said there is a list of only 12 people who understand Einstein and you’re not on that list: in fact, you’re not on any list! So I asked Lippincott if they would send the chapter to Einstein in Princeton and after he had read it he agreed to meet with me one evening at the apartment of Dr. Fishbein on Riverside Drive in New York. That was”
