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
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.