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
Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.