Letters show Einstein`s marriage formula was off beam
(Artdaily.org)

Albert Einstein may have been a genius when it came to the world of physics -- but the magic formula for marriage eluded him, according to letters up for auction at Christie`s. The man behind the theory of relativity was on less solid ground when it came to relationships, according to a series of letters to his lifelong friend and collaborator Michele Besso. `What I admired most in him as a man was the manner in which he managed to live for so long peacefully but also durably with a spouse -- an enterprise in which I piteously failed twice,` Einstein wrote to Besso`s family on March 21, 1955, just after his friend`s death, which preceded his own only by weeks. In an emotional final paragraph, Einstein wrote of Besso: `Now he has again preceded