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
Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.
If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.
It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.
One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is.
The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.