1. Modern pop culture paints Einstein as a bushy-haired super thinker. (para. 8)
A. Modern pop culture describes Einstein as a super thinker with very thick hair.
B. Einstein appears as a bushy-haired super thinker in present-day paintings.
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Other physicists like Max Planck, more senior and experienced than Einstein, were closing in on the answer, but Einstein got there first. ( )
A. Other physicists like Max Planck, more senior and experienced than Einstein, had started to examine the problem much earlier than Einstein did.
B. Other physicists like Max Planck, more senior and experienced than Einstein, were getting closer to the answer, but Einstein solved the problem first.
The contrast between the popular assessment of my powers ...and the reality is simply grotesque. ( )
A. The difference between what people think of my powers and my real powers is absurdly huge.
B. There is a sharp contrast between the popular view of scientific research andthe reality.
Einstein credited his discoveries to imagination and endless questioning more so than orthodox intelligence. ( )
A. Einstein said traditional intelligence played a more important role than his imagination and endless questioning in his discoveries.
B. Einstein said his discoveries resulted more from his imagination and never-ending questioning than from traditional intelligence.
But Einstein's brain looked much like any other, gray, crinkly, and, if anything, a trifle smaller than average.( )
A. But Einstein's brain looked much like any other. If anything was found, it was the gray crinkly material and its smaller size.
But Einstein's brain looked much like any other. It was gray, crinkly and, if there was anything different, it was that his brain was slightly smaller.