“I reviewed some of his articles and knew Albert couldn’t manage all those mathematical calculations on his own. You were always better at math than him. Than most of us, actually.” I” — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Was Mileva simply a sounding board for his brainstorms, as some scientists insisted? Did she only assist him with the complicated mathematical calculations, as others claimed? Or did she play a much more critical role, as a few physicists believed?… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“I reviewed some of his articles and knew Albert couldn’t manage all those mathematical calculations on his own. You were always better at math… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the first time you realized that you were different from other girls? Smarter perhaps?” Helene asked. I” — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Together, we will become the ideal bohemian couple—equal in love and work.” “Truly?” — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“constantly astonished myself with these girls. Astonished that I had the words to express my long-buried stories. Astonished that I allowed them to see… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Like a spider, Albert became busy building a name for himself in the center of the intricate web of European physicists.” — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“The Polytechnic was a new sort of college dedicated to producing teachers and professors for various math or scientific disciplines, and it was one… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Won’t he ask who this other author is? This Miss Marić?” Albert was quiet. “Would you mind if I listed only my name as… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Mama had indeed risen up with a ferocity I didn’t think she possessed. I’d been wrong about her my whole life. Her quietude was… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“I knew that they needed to jettison the goal of finding a law of physics applicable to all observers in the universe and focus… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Remember my words, Mileva, when you withdraw into the deadening cycle of home. You and I are not so different except in the choices… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •” — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Mitza, you are like the objects in one of Newton’s investigations. You tirelessly maintain your velocity through life unless you are acted upon by… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
