Seems entirely plausible as a factual story (perhaps from the late 1930s) that Einstein could meet Weidman at a party in NYC, and such a conversation wouldn’t h

Seems entirely plausible as a factual story (perhaps from the late 1930s) that Einstein could meet Weidman at a party in NYC, and such a conversation wouldn’t have been out of character for him. Though it’s also plausible that Weidman made it up. According to past HN comments it was submitted to Readers’ Digest as a true story, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129698