 | BiographyType: Physicist Born: 14 March 1879 Died: 18 April 1955 Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. |
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts.
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?
If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
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