Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
1921 portrait by Ferdinand Schmutzer
Born: 14 March 1879, Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died: 18 April 1955, Princeton, New Jersey
Here is a man of incredible genius and insight who couldn't tie his necktie so the ends came out even (he sometimes cut the offending end off). He needed a year of remedial math to get into college and the only job he could get after graduating was as a patent clerk, but a paper he wrote in his spare time earned him an unsolicited PhD.
Biography from Wikipedia and Nobel Foundation
Albert Einstein quotes:
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- A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against the doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs. On the other hand, representatives of science have often made an attempt to arrive at fundamental judgments with respect to values and ends on the basis of scientific method, and in this way have set themselves in opposition to religion. These conflicts have all sprung from fatal errors.
- "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium" (1941) - A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
- "My Future Plans" student essay at age 17 (18 September 1896) - A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
- Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon (3 May 1949) - A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
- A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them.
- A storm broke loose in my mind.
- A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
- All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
- All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds. They are thus in no wise logical consequences of the content of these sense-experiences. We must therefore investigate how they are related to the experience.
- Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
- An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
- "Mein Weltbild" (1931) - An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
- Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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