Conversations with Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein said that he didn’t like giving interviews, but as a public figure he couldn’t avoid them. Yet he never gave a thorough, organized interview about his scientific career and the most interesting aspects of his private life. It was precisely this gap that Carlos Calle, an N.A.S.A. research physicist and a great fan of Einstein, tried to fill—and as a result he managed to recreate a portrait of one of the greatest scientists in history so convincingly, as if he had actually spoken with him.

With a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, a Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.

“Do the answers given in my ‘interviews’ reflect the essence of Einstein’s personality? For the most part, yes. I based myself on the views and opinions expressed in his articles, books for the general reader, press interviews, and private letters to members of his family and friends. In some cases, I used direct quotations from these sources: these are partly indicated in the Notes at the end of the book. Einstein’s private life is an important part of these imagined conversations.” (Carlos Calle).