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 love Humanity but I hate humans
An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
The most important thing is to not stop questioning.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
I admit that thoughts influence the body.
Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.