Einstein and Eddington Page #5

Einstein or Newton,

that's the question he's asking.

Well then, the truth

is all that matters.

And you must go after it.

Our supper?

I thought you were

arriving tomorrow.

Hans wants to know...

Go on, ask your father.

Is your work nearly finished?

Let me show you

what I've been working on.

What is it made of?

Where does it come from?

What is it?

Gravity.

That's what I'm struggling with, Hans.

I can't make sense of it.

You have changed the way

that you do everything.

The symbols you're using are...

...strange and complicated.

You've moved a long way

away from me.

I brought the Schubert to play.

- Play the music.

- No.

Why not? You love Schubert!

No.

I came to Berlin because I thought

there might be a future for us.

I see now that I was wrong.

Do you want a divorce?

Hans!

When my work is finished,

I will come and tell you

what it means.

I promise you!

We withdraw into

the presence of God.

We are still.

We are silent.

We listen,

so that God may be heard.

Show yourselves!

Who are we?

If we are anything...

...we Quakers are

men and women of principle.

We will never believe...

...that any man, woman or child

is unwelcome

in our beloved England

because they were born in another country.

This IS your home.

CROWD:
Traitors! Where's our traitor?

Traitors! Where's our traitor?

- Coward.

- No, it's not like that.

My boy's gone.

What makes you so different?

Why is it so easy for you to say no?

Stinking cowards!

You should be ashamed of yourselves!

Cowards!

Absolute disgrace!

I have it from the highest authority.

A huge offensive will follow

the first use of the gas.

Then the war will be shorter?

Oh, yeah.

German lives will be saved.

Yes.

What are you doing?

What is this?

My son for years

has been doing nothing.

Now, in the army, he's found a purpose.

He's transformed.

It's a good feeling to be able

to call oneself German again.

Did you know he was

going to be here?

Your membership of the Academy

of Sciences has a consequence.

You have become

an official of the state,

which makes your nationality German.

I gave it up.

The Kaiser himself has personally

decreed your return to German citizenship.

Then the Kaiser himself should have

thought to ask me first.

Show him.

This is a list of the greatest names

in German cultural life -

the inheritors of Beethoven,

Schubert, Goethe.

Yes, but what is it?

A manifesto to be sent all over the world,

even to England -

a statement of solidarity

with the German army,

signed by just 93

of the highest names.

It will be your honour

to be the 94th signatory.

Is Goethe going to

fight Shakespeare?

We could have a Swiss jury

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