Albert Einstein 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a theoretical physicist who published the special and general theories of relativity and contributed to other areas of physics and won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1921. Einstein is commonly considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
Einstein’s parents were, middle-class Jews. Einstein's father Hermann Einstein, was originally a featherbed salesman and later ran an electrochemical factory. His mom, the previous Pauline Koch, ran the family household.
He had one sister, Maria who called by the name Maja, born two years after Albert. At the age of 12 Einstein became deeply religious, and even composing several songs in praise of God and chanting religious songs on the way to school.
The special theory of relativity which we know today is written by Einstein in the year 1905. This paper contained two hypotheses. The first stated that the laws of physics has to have the same form in any frame of reference. The second hypothesis stated that the speed of light was constant. Later that year Einstein also showed how mass and energy were equivalents.
After an impressive few years of work, Einstein became a lecturer at the University of Bern. In 1909 he finally got a post at a university when he became a faculty member at the University of Zurich. In the year 1911 Einstein taught at Carl-Ferdinand University in Prague.
Einstein was a researcher as well as a social activist and a humanitarian. He spoke out against the German involvement in World War I. In December of 1932, he left for the United States a month after his departure the Nazis expected to control Germany. Einstein never returned to Germany.
In 1935 Einstein was granted permanent residency in the United States and became a citizen in 1940. In 1944 he wrote his 1905 theory on relativity and allowed it to be auctioned. It sold for six million dollars, which he donated to the effort to win World War II.
The work resides in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. By 1949 Einstein was in failing health. when offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 he had to decline it due to his bad health. In 1955, one week before his death, he agreed to have his name appear on a manifesto calling for the end to nuclear weapons. He died in April of 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.
21 Amazing Motivational Albert Einstein Quotes that always give us Goose Bumps when we heard these.
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1) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
2) The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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3) A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
4) Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
5) If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
6) Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
4) Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
5) If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
6) Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
7) Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
8) It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
9) Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
10) Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
11) Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
11) Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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13) If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
14) Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
15) The only real valuable thing is intuition.
16) Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
17) Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
18) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
19) The only source of knowledge is experience
19) The only source of knowledge is experience
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20) We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them
21) A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
