A Layman's Complaint

Indignant at Einstein's reticence about his most recent discovery, Robert L. Duffus, writing in The New York Globe, claims that the lack lies in the scientist rather than in the reporters and the public. The truths with which such men deal, he says, cannot be said to be discovered until they have been made as intelligible as murders or prizefights to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker.

Query by a physicist: "Is a man of science obligated to make primer copy out of phenomena that are understood by only a very few of the world's keenest brains after a lifetime of study? There is small doubt where the majority of scientists would stand if this question were put to a vote!"