"So Einstein dies. He finds himself in heaven, and he has his violin. He's overjoyed. He loves his violin more than physics. Even more than women. He's excited to find out how well he can play in ...

Einstein played the violin. At 5 years old, his mother signed him up for lessons. At first, he didn't enjoy playing at all, according to the American Nuclear Society. But after discovering Mozart ...

Like a student cramming for an examination, Scientist Albert Einstein shut himself up in a room of Adolph Lewisohn’s New York home one afternoon last week and practiced three hours on his violin.