Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.:274 Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "services to theoretical physics", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 March 1879
CityUlm, Germany
CountryGermany
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.
Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.
Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.
Out of the clutter find Simplicity
Nothing happens til something moves.
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.
There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.