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Einstein como memorabilia de científicos
Einstein-en-el-maletero

La noche del 18 de abril de 1955 el patólogo Thomas Harvey empuñó su escalpelo y realizó una incisión en forma de Y sobre el cadáver de Albert Einstein. Con el cuerpo aún caliente encima de la mesa, el doctor extrajo el hígado y los intestinos y halló casi tres litros de sangre en la cavidad peritoneal. A continuación abrió el cráneo con una sierra circular, extrajo el cerebro y se lo llevó a su casa. Seguir leyendo
Cuarenta años después, y una vez analizados los distintos testimonios, parece que la noche en que Thomas Harvey diseccionó el cadáver de Albert Einstein terminó siendo una jornada bastante esperpéntica. Decenas de personas bajaron a contemplar el cuerpo del maestro y quisieron quedarse con un recuerdo. “Cada uno agarró lo que pudo” - explica el doctor Henry Abrams, oftalmólogo personal del científico. Él mismo extrajo los ojos de Einstein y los guardó durante más de 40 años en la caja de seguridad de un banco de Filadelfia.
Aún hoy, el doctor Abrams acude una o dos veces del año a la cámara de seguridad del banco y contempla los ojos del genio, con los que asegura experimentar “una profunda conexión”. 
“Cuando se miran esos ojos, - asegura Abrams– 
se ve en ellos la belleza y el misterio del mundo. 
Son claros como el cristal y dan sensación de profundidad”.

El científico japonés Kenji Sugimoto, obsesionado con la vida de Albert Einstein, emprendió a finales de los 90 una odisea personal en busca del cerebro del que tanto haba oido hablar. La aventura, filmada por el director Kevin Hull para un documental de la BBC, llevó a Sugimoto a recorrer los Estados Unidos en busca de Harvey, hasta que le localizó en su casa de Kansas.




Un microcorte de Albert:

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Boron - Helps to prevent the loss of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium through the urine.

"Knowledge is power"

"Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est" [latín]
Francis Bacon in Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597)
English author, courtier & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

Sir Francis Bacon
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"(Tener) Conocimiento es (tener) poder"

[DE]

"Wissen ist Macht"

[FR] Controverse Citations

«La connaissance est en elle-même puissance»

Bacon's real claim to fame is: not that he, as the lord chancellor, in 1621, was removed from office for accepting a litigant's bribe; nor, that he was the real writer of the Shakespearean plays (one of the controversies in English literature, the "Baconian controversy"); but rather Francis Bacon is known as a philosopher, one of the first order. Bacon delineated the principles of the inductive method, which constituted a breakthrough in the approach to science, even though philosophers and scientists of the day, - and seemingly today, yet - repudiated both his theories and methodology, alike. Bacon argued that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world; and that a clear system of scientific inquiry would assure man's mastery over the world.
He was the originator of the expression, "Knowledge is power".
He was quite taken up by the "materialist" theories and the resultant discoveries of both Copernicus and Galileo. Bacon, along with Galileo are known in the literature as "the great anti-Aristotelians who created the 'modern scientific' view of Nature."