considered such offers. Finally, he did write his "Autobiographical Notes" because, as he put it, "it is a good thing to show those who are striving alongside of us, how one's own striving and searching appears to one in retrospect." Those "Notes" were the only document even approaching an autobiography that Einstein ever wrote. He wrote them for a scholarly volume without asking for or getting any money in return. Einstein was married twice. He was separated from his first wife, a physicist named Mileva Maric, soon after his arrival in Berlin. After World War I, he married his first cousin, Elsa. She died at Princeton in 1936. He had two sons and a daughter by his first wife. He gained two stepdaughters in his second marriage. Although he was not associated with any orthodox religion, Einstein's nature was deeply religious. He felt that belief in a personal God was too specific a concept to be applicable to the Being at work in this universe, but he never believed that the universe was one of chance or chaos. The universe to him was one of absolute law and order. He once said, "God may be sophisticated, but He is not malicious." ...
