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
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
Imagination is the highest form of research.
A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler
The field is the sole influence of the particle.
Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.