Abstract
It has been over one hundred years since Albert Einstein changed the world's understanding of reality. As both a scientist and a humanist, he dominated the first half of the twentieth century and, as these essays reveal, continues to influence physics and philosophy well after his death in 1955. John Brockman, a writer and publisher of the "third culture" website, www.edge.org, has done an outstanding job of creating a word picture of Einstein, as two dozen modern thinkers perceive him.