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
Albert Einstein quotes about
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.
Thus the partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.