What is the Theory of Relativity?
Albert Einstein, manuscript for The Times (London), 1919, facsimile

In reaction to the great amount of public interest in the Theory of Relativity, The Times requests a statement from Einstein. He describes the Special and General Theories of Relativity as principle theories based on the universal attributes observed in natural processes. To close, he points out a further application of the Relativity Principle: In Germany at the time he was a German scholar, in England a Swiss Jew, but that, he notes, can be reversed.

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