Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'In Emerson's later years his memory began increasingly to fail.(Banesh Hoffman, 'My Friend, Albert Einstein.' Reader's Digest, January 1968) Then, joining the children as they went from door to door, he accompanied their singing of 'Silent Night' on his violin.' Einstein listened, then said, 'Wait a moment.' He put on his scarf and overcoat and took his violin from its case. Having finished, they knocked on his door and explained they were collecting money to buy Christmas presents. In his first year in Princeton, on Christmas Eve, so the story goes, some children sang carols outside his house. It is illustrated by my favorite anecdote about him.
Albert Einstein: 'There was something elusively whimsical about Einstein.
