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 refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.
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.