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 prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.
There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.
I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
Knowledge is limited.
All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.