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
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
Learn from yesterday, live for today...
Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going.
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.
I now see the necessity of a beginning.
What you can't imagine, you can't discover.
Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego
One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good