Einstein's letters fetch $210,000 at auction

Eight letters written by German scientist Albert Einstein have fetched nearly $210,000 at an auction today, with the highest bid going to a letter about God's creation of the world. The letters, written in English between 1951 and 1954, were initially valued between $31,000 and $46,000. The highest bid of $ 84,000 was for a letter to eminent physicist David Bohm in February 1954, a year before Einstein's death.

"If God has created the world his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us," Einstein wrote in the letter. In another missive to Bohm, which sold for $50,400, Einstein discussed the link his colleague made between quantum theory and "relativistic field theory." The typewritten letter includes an equation added in neat handwriting and the writer's signature, the 'Times of Israel' reported. Bohm, born in the US to Jewish immigrant parents, had worked with Einstein at Princeton University before fleeing to Brazil after losing his post in Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts.