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 only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.
Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler
The opinion prevailed among 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.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.
Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.