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
As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
Where there is love, there is no imposition.
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
Politics is far more complicated than physics.
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press
I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
How do I work? I grope.
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.