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
Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.
The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.
The Devil craps on the big pile
The genius is in making the complex simple.
Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.
I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.
God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.
Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.
I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.