Albert Einstein
(1879—1955)
physicist, author of theory of relativity.
"Albert Einstein reshaped our cosmos by supplanting long-treasured concepts of physics with shockingly counterintuitive ideas about the nature of space and time. It is no accident his name has become a synonym for genius. Yet, throughout his life the seeming contradictions of this complex man made him a controversial figure."
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
address at the Sorbonne
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will […]
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 […]
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.