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He changed the future without ever winning a vote or commanding an army. All Albert Einstein did was have an idea. It's not a particularly easy one to grasp in all its ramifications, but the basic insight he expressed in his 1905 paper on special relativity is almost childlike in its simplicity. And yet it ushered in a new golden age of physics and did much to shape the course of the 20th century. It also transformed the way the future is made: not with wars and revolutions but with scientific insights. That much is still true. But Einstein has also come to represent an obsolete stereotype. This disheveled, socially challenged scientist with the wild hair and the shabby ...

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