Thinking Of Albert Einstein...

Thinking Of Albert Einstein...

PROFILE;                                               

Born	14 March 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg,German Empire
Died	18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Residence	Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria (today: Czech Republic), Belgium, United States
Citizenship	Subject of Kingdom of Württemberg during German Empire (1879–1896) Stateless (1896–1901) Citizen of Switzerland (1901–1955) Austrian subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1911–1912) Subject of the Kingdom of Prussia during German Empire (1914–1918), German citizen of the Free State of Prussia (Weimar Republic, 1918–1933) Citizen of United States (1940–1955)
Fields	Physics, philosophy
Institutions	Swiss Patent Office (Bern) (1902–1909) University of Bern (1908–1909) University of Zurich (1909–1911) Charles University in Prague(1911–1912) ETH Zurich (1912–1914) Prussian Academy of Sciences(1914–1933) Humboldt University of Berlin(1914–1917) Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (director, 1917–1933) German Physical Society(president, 1916–1918) Leiden University (visits, 1920) Institute for Advanced Study(1933–1955) Caltech (visits, 1931–1933)
Alma mater	Swiss Federal Polytechnic(1896–1900; B.A., 1900) University of Zurich (Ph.D., 1905)
Thesis	Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions) (1905)
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Kleiner
Other academic advisors	Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Known for	General relativity and special relativity Photoelectric effect E=mc2 Theory of Brownian motion Einstein field equations Bose–Einstein statistics Bose–Einstein condensate Gravitational wave Cosmological constant Unified field theory EPR paradox
Influenced	Ernst G. Straus Nathan Rosen Leó Szilárd
Notable awards	Barnard Medal (1920) Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Matteucci Medal (1921) ForMemRS (1921)[1] Copley Medal (1925)[1] Max Planck Medal (1929) Time Person of the Century(1999)
Spouse	Mileva Marić (1903–1919) Elsa Löwenthal (1919–1936)[2][3]
Children	"Lieserl" (1902–1903?) Hans Albert (1904–1973) Eduard "Tete" (1910–1965)
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• You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
• Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
• “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
• “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
• “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” 
• “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” 
• “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
• “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” 
• “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” 
• “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
• “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
• “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.” 
• “Never memorize something that you can look up.” 
• “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” 
• “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” 
• “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” 
• “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
• “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
• “You never fail until you stop trying.” 
• “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” 
• “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” 
• “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
• “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
• “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
• “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” 
• “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
• “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
• "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64” 
• Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
• “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
• “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
• “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
• “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

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