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 only source of knowledge is experience.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.