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
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.
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. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
You can't use an old map to explore a new world.
Once you stop learning, you start dying
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.