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
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.
It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.
Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.