Einstein e Chaplin

 

Einstein: What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you!
Chaplin: True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say.

 As coisas não aconteceram bem assim, mas a história tem um pouco de verdade...

Plesch, médico e amigo de Einstein conta assim o encontro de Einstein e Chaplin em Hollywood em 1931 para o lançamento do "Luzes da Cidade" de Chaplin:

Once when Einstein was in Hollywood on a visit Chaplin drove him through the town. As the people on the sidewalks recognized two of their greatest, if very different, contemporaries, they gave them a tremendous reception which greatly astonished Einstein. “They’re cheering us both,” said Chaplin: “you because nobody understands you, and me because everybody understands me.” There was a good-humoured pride in his remark, and at the same time a certain humility as at a recognition of the difference between ready popularity and lasting greatness.

O certo é que são dois gênios do século XX.


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