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
The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.
Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery
I want to know all God's thoughts.
Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex
A mathematical equation stands forever
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort
One can't teach a cat not to catch birds
The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did
To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.