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 have just got a new theory of eternity.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Curiosity is its own reason.
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.
I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.
No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.
Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.
[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.
"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".
It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.