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
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.
A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.
Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
Our technology has surpassed our humanity
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.
When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.