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
The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.
The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.
I rarely think in words at all.
I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.
Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.
The next world war will be fought with stones.
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.