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1879–1955
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a Jewish German theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics and to Atomic Theory.
Also known as: Albert einstein, Einstein, Einstein's razor, Einstein, Albert, God doesn't play dice
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The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
In Russia the equality of all national and cultural groups is not merely nominal but is actually practiced.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day [sic] thinking.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
It appears dubious whether a field theory can account for the atomistic structure of matter and radiation as well as of quantum phenomena.
This circumstance of an expanding universe is irritating.
The genuine scientist is not moved by praise or blame.
Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man (1983)
To admit such possibilities seems senseless to me.
A theory is the more impressive, the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more diverse things it connects, and the wider its scope
Autobiographical Notes (1949)
While religion prescribes brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual spectacle more resembles a battlefield than an orchestra.
Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? (1948)
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.
He...who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.
The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? (1948)
It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Viereck interview (1929)
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting.
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Great moral teachers of humanity were, in a certain sense, geniuses in the art of living more than in the art of thinking.
Ideas and Opinions (1954)
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