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
Go out as far as you can go and start from there
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
Reason is intuition's servant.
What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS
We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.