对爱因斯坦来说,没有任何新的成果,来为他最后的几年增添光彩。他最后一次伟大的突破,没有任何人追随。渐渐地,他从自己已取得的物理成就中脱离出来,进入高等研究所。他再也不曾造访欧洲。他从不开车,也不搭飞机,朋友圈日益缩小,数学家哥德尔是他小小天空中最明亮的星。他再也享受不到当年在柏林时,那种知识精英间的单纯的情谊。到了晚年,他坦承,和包括妻儿在内的 For Einstein, there is nothing new to add to the glory of his last few years. His last great breakthrough, no one to follow. Gradually, he detached himself from the physical achievements he had made and entered the Institute of Advanced Studies. He never visited Europe again. He never drives, nor does he fly, his friends circle shrinks, and mathematician Godel is the brightest star in his little sky. He could no longer enjoy the mere friendship between the kind of intellectual elites in Berlin at the time. In his later years, he admits, including his wife and children