Theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, public figure and humanist. Lived in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Honorary doctor of about 20 leading universities in the world, member of many Academies of Sciences, including a foreign honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Special theory of relativity (1905).
Within its framework is the law of the relationship between mass and energy: ( E = mc2).
General theory of relativity (1907-1916).
Quantum theory of the photoelectric effect.
Quantum theory of heat capacity.
Quantum statistics of Bose - Einstein.
Statistical theory of Brownian motion, which laid the foundations of the theory of fluctuations.
Theory of stimulated emission.
Theory of light scattering by thermodynamic fluctuations in a medium.
He also predicted gravitational waves and "quantum teleportation", and predicted and measured the Einstein-de Haas gyromagnetic effect. Since 1933, he worked on problems of cosmology and unified field theory. He actively opposed war, against the use of nuclear weapons, for humanism, respect for human rights, and mutual understanding between peoples.
Quotes, aphorisms and sayings
Those who have never made mistakes have never tried something new.
There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the Universe.
Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.
The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
I don’t know with what weapons the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones.
If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, then what does an empty desk mean?
There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.
The world is dangerous, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
When you sit next to a pretty girl, an hour seems like a minute, and when you sit on a hot frying pan, a minute seems like an hour.
If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
Logic will take you from point A to point B. Imagination will take you anywhere.
The world is dangerous not because some people do evil, but because some people see it and do nothing.
We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
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 survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
It is better to believe than not to believe, because with faith everything becomes possible.
I'm too crazy not to be a genius.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
The goal of the school should always be to educate a harmonious personality, and not a specialist.
If the theory of relativity is confirmed, the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.
Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.
Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.
The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?
Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
Only a fool needs order; genius rules over chaos.
Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it’s not like that at all...
To win, you first need to play.
Imagination is the most important thing, it is a reflection of what we attract into our lives.
Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.
I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.
A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
The war has been won, but not the peace.
Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow. The main thing is not to stop asking questions... Never lose your sacred curiosity.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. Physicist, one of the founders of modern physical theory, creator of the Special and General Theories of Relativity, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. Died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, USA.
Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - Einstein Albert
- The war has been won, but not the peace.
- God is cunning, but not malicious.
- I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
- Finding the truth is more important than having the truth.
- Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler than that.
- It's time to replace the ideal of success with the ideal of service.
- Morality is the basis of all human values.
- Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity.
- The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.
- What can a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?
- Before God, we are all equally smart, or rather, equally stupid.
- Only the life that is lived for the sake of other people is worthy.
- Religion, Art and Science are branches of the same tree.
- The world cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved through understanding.
- The most difficult thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.
- I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.
- Mathematics is the most perfect way to fool yourself.
- To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.
- The eternally unknowable in the world is that which seems understandable to us.
- The only smart way to teach people is to lead by example.
- There is only one path to greatness, and that path is through suffering.
- The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
- International laws exist only in collections of international laws.
- The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.
- A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
- I want to be cremated so people don't come to worship my bones.
- Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
- Perfect means for unclear ends are a characteristic feature of our time.
- Our math difficulties don't bother God. He integrates empirically.
- The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.
- It's very simple, my dears: because politics is much more complex than physics.
- Do you really think that the moon only exists when you look at it?
- You will never solve a problem if you think the same way as those who created it.
- Marriage is an attempt to create something lasting and lasting out of a random episode.
- It is not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are often easy to recognize.
- The goal of the school should always be to educate a harmonious personality, and not a specialist.
- Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
- Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
- Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.
- Every person is obliged to at least return to the world as much as he took from it.
- Common sense is the sum of the prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.
- To punish me for my aversion to authority, fate made me the authority.
- I learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.
- If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
- There are two infinite things - the Universe and human stupidity. However, I'm not sure about the Universe.
- The real progress of mankind depends not so much on the inventive mind as on consciousness.
- People cause me seasickness, not the sea. But I'm afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.
- A scientist is like a mimosa when he notices his own mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers someone else’s mistake.
- Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.
- The true value of a person is determined by the extent to which he has freed himself from selfishness and by what means he has achieved this.
- In my youth I discovered that my big toe would eventually make a hole in my sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
- The only thing that can direct us to noble thoughts and actions is the example of great and morally pure individuals.
- For the simpletons, Einstein explained his theory of relativity as follows: “This is when Zurich stops at this train.”
- Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; a religious basis is not needed at all.
- It is impossible to solve a problem at the same level at which it arose. You need to rise above this problem by rising to the next level.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
- Nothing will bring such benefits to human health and increase the chances of preserving life on Earth as the spread of vegetarianism.
- The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science, in the face of reality, looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.
- Nothing of value can be born from ambition or a sense of duty. Values arise through love and devotion to people and the objective realities of this world.
- Quantum mechanics is truly impressive. But my inner voice tells me that this is not ideal yet. This theory says a lot, but still does not bring us closer to unraveling the secret of the Almighty. At least I'm sure He doesn't roll the dice.
- Words were and remain empty words; and, serving the ideal only in words, it is impossible to die for it. But personality is created not by what a person hears and speaks, but by labor and activity.
- As long as the laws of mathematics remain certain, they have nothing to do with reality; as soon as they have something in common with reality, they cease to be defined.
- The life of an individual has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and noble. Life is sacred; it is, so to speak, the supreme value to which all other values are subordinated.
- I would not recommend forming a team of inventors due to the difficulty of identifying the real inventor; I think that all that can come out of this is a society of idlers hiding from work.
- Human freedom in the modern world is similar to the freedom of a person solving a crossword puzzle: theoretically, he can enter any word, but in reality he must enter only one in order for the crossword to be solved.
- Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the desire for truth and understanding. But the source of this feeling originates from the field of religion. From there comes the belief in the possibility that the rules of this world are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot imagine a real scientist without a strong belief in this. The situation can be described figuratively as follows: science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.
- Anyone who happily marches to the music in formation has already earned my contempt. He was endowed with a brain by mistake; a spinal cord would have been enough for him. This disgrace to civilization must end. Heroism on command, senseless cruelty and disgusting senselessness called patriotism - how much I hate all this, how low and vile war is. I would rather be torn to pieces than be part of this dirty act. I am convinced that murder under the pretext of war does not cease to be murder.
- Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He feels himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest of the world, which is a kind of optical illusion. This illusion has become a prison for us, limiting us to the world of our own desires and attachment to a narrow circle of people close to us. Our task is to free ourselves from this prison, expanding the sphere of our participation to every living being, to the whole world, in all its splendor. No one will be able to complete such a task to the end, but the very attempts to achieve this goal are part of the liberation and the basis for inner confidence.
Albert Einstein's wife was asked: - Do you know Einstein's theory of relativity?
“Not really,” she admitted. “But no one in the world knows Einstein himself better than me.”
- When you sit on a hot stove for one minute, it seems like a whole hour has passed, and when a beauty sits on your lap for a whole hour, it seems like one minute has passed. Theory of relativity.
- It is very important not to stop asking questions. Curiosity is not given to man by chance.
- There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I'm not entirely sure about the Universe.
- I never think about the future. It comes quite quickly.
- Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
- It is better to believe than not to believe, because with faith everything becomes possible.
- Life is like driving a bicycle. To maintain balance, you must move.
- Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.
- The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?
- Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
- Only a fool needs order; genius rules over chaos.
- If you do not sin against reason, you cannot come to anything at all.
- I always think that my inner and outer lives are based on the works and thoughts of other people, living and dead, and that I must expand myself to give to the world as much as I have received and continue to receive now.
- The secret of creativity is the ability to hide the sources of your inspiration.
- In my imagination I am free to draw like an artist. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination spans the entire world.
- There are two ways to live: you can live as if miracles do not happen, and you can live as if everything in this world is a miracle.
- There is no point in continuing to do the same thing and expect different results.
- You need to learn the rules of the game. And then you need to start playing better than everyone else.
- I learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.
- Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
- I don’t teach my students anything, I just create the conditions in which they themselves will learn.
- The only thing stopping me from studying is the education I received.
- It is not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are very easy to recognize.
- As I study myself and my way of thinking, I come to the conclusion that the gift of imagination and fantasy meant more to me than any ability for abstract thinking.
- To become a perfect member of the flock of sheep, you must first be a sheep.
- You will never solve a problem if you think the same way as those who created it.
- A man who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.
- The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
- Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
- A person's worth should be determined by what he gives, not by what he is able to achieve. Try to become not a successful person, but a valuable person.
- The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.
- Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; a religious basis is not needed at all.
- In my youth I discovered that my big toe would eventually make a hole in my sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery. It is she who is the source of real art and science. Someone who is alien to these emotions, who can no longer be surprised and frozen in awe, can be considered dead: his eyes are closed. Penetration into the mystery of life, coupled with fear, gave impetus to the emergence of religion. To know that the incomprehensible really exists, manifesting itself through the greatest wisdom and the most perfect beauty, which our limited abilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms - this is knowledge, this feeling is the basis of true religiosity.
A. Einstein (1879-1955) -theoretical physicist, creator of the theory of relativity and one of the creators of quantum theory, Nobel Prize laureate
I don't have any special talents.
I'm just passionately curious.
There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity.
Although I'm not entirely sure about the Universe.
Education is what remains after everything that was taught at school is forgotten.
Any fool can know. The trick is to understand.
Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it's not like that at all...
Everyone knows from childhood that such and such is impossible.
But there is always an ignoramus who does not know this.
It is he who makes the discovery.
Logic can take you from point A to point B, and imagination can take you anywhere...
The difference between past, present and future is only an illusion
Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen
Only a few are able to express opinions that diverge from the prejudices of the environment,
the majority of people are generally incapable of coming to such opinions.
Power always attracts people of low moral character.
Those who joyfully march in formation received the brain by mistake: for them, the spinal cord would have been enough.
I so hate heroism on command, senseless cruelty and what is united under the word “patriotism” that I would rather allow myself to be torn to pieces than be part of such actions.
The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
The main thing is not to stop asking questions...
The question that puzzles me is:
Am I crazy or is everyone around me?
Table, chair, fruit plate and violin -
What else does a person need to be happy?
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To maintain balance, you need to keep moving.
I thought and thought for months and years.
Ninety-nine times my conclusions were wrong.
But for the hundredth time I was right.
Never memorize anything you can find in a book.
If at first the idea does not seem absurd, it is hopeless.
Any intelligent fool is capable of inflating, complicating and aggravating. To do the opposite requires at least a little genius - and a lot of courage.
Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow.
The main thing is not to stop asking questions...
Never lose your sacred curiosity.
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child, you don't understand it yourself.
If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be even smarter, read them even more fairy tales.
Wisdom is not the result of education, but the result of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Most people argue that a great scientist is first and foremost an intellect.
They are mistaken: it is primarily character.
If A is success in life, then A = X + Y + Z, where: X is work, Y is passion, Z is a tightly closed mouth.
A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
I am enough of an artist to be able to draw freely in my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination embraces the entire Universe, pushing progress, giving rise to evolution.
The gift of fantasy means more to me than the ability to absorb positive knowledge.
The only truly valuable quality is intuition. On the path to discovery, the role of intelligence is insignificant.
Only daring guesses, and not the accumulation of facts, can lead us to success.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate creative thinking.
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid.
Morality is of the greatest importance - not for God, but for us.
A person must learn to understand the motives of his own kind, their illusions and their suffering.
Peace cannot be maintained by force.
Peace can only be achieved through understanding.
Never act against your conscience, even if state interests require it.
Attempts to combine wisdom and power were rarely successful - and even then only for a short time.
Truth is that which stands the test of experience.
Mathematics is the only perfect method that allows you to fool yourself by the nose.
There is always an element of poetry in scientific thinking. Real science and real music require a homogeneous thought process.
Science is a drama of ideas.
While a mathematical law reflects reality, it is not exact; Once a mathematical law is precise, it does not reflect actual reality.
The most incomprehensible thing in our world is that it is still understandable.
Fantasy is more important than knowledge.
The goal of all the activities of the intellect is to transform some “miracle” into something comprehensible...
No problem can be solved at the same level at which it arose.
Never act against your conscience, even if state interests require it.
Finding the truth is more important than having the truth.
I feel so in solidarity with all living things that it makes no difference to me where the individual begins and ends.
Nationalism is a childhood disease, the measles of humanity.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Mathematics is the only perfect method for fooling yourself.
Our math difficulties don't bother God.
He integrates empirically.
Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
No amount of experimentation can prove a theory; but one experiment is enough to refute it.
The intellect should not be deified.
He has powerful muscles, but no face.
INTERESTING FACTS from the life of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein's wife was once asked:
- Do you know Einstein's theory of relativity?
“Not really,” she admitted. - But no one in the world knows Einstein himself better than me.
Einstein's wife was once asked what she thought of her husband.
She replied: “My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money!”…
Once at a lecture, Einstein was asked how great discoveries are made. He thought for a moment and replied:
“Let’s say that all educated people know that something cannot be done. However, there is one ignoramus who does not know this. He makes the discovery!”
When Einstein was visiting the Curies, he noticed, sitting in the living room, that out of respect no one sat in the chairs next to him. Then he turned to the owner Joliot-Curie:
“Sit next to me, Frederick! Otherwise it seems to me that I am present at a meeting of the Prussian Academy of Sciences!”
Edison once complained to Einstein that he couldn’t find an assistant. Einstein asked how he determined their suitability. In response, Edison showed him several sheets of questions. Einstein began to read them:
"How many miles from New York to Chicago?" - and answered:
“We need to look at the railway directory.”
He read the following question: “What is stainless steel made of?” - and answered:
“You can find this out in a metallurgical reference book.”
Quickly looking through the rest of the questions, Einstein put the papers aside and said:
“Without waiting for a refusal, I withdraw my candidacy myself.”
An American journalist, a certain Miss Thompson, interviewed Einstein:
"What is the difference between time and eternity?"
Einstein replied:
"If I had time to explain the difference between these concepts, it would take forever before you would understand it."
Once Albert Einstein and the famous cellist Grigory Pyatigorsky performed together at a charity concert. There was a young journalist sitting in the audience who was supposed to write a report about the concert. He addressed a question to one of the listeners:
- Excuse me, we all know Pyatigorsky, but this Einstein, who is speaking today...
- My God, don’t you know, this is the great Einstein!
“Yes, of course, thank you,” the journalist became embarrassed and began to scribble something in a notebook.
The next day, a report appeared in the newspaper about Pyatigorsky's performance together with Einstein - a great musician, an incomparable virtuoso violinist, who eclipsed Pyatigorsky himself with his brilliant playing. The review made everyone laugh a lot, especially Einstein. He cut out the note and carried it with him all the time, showed it to his friends and said:
- Do you think I'm a scientist? No, I'm a famous violinist, that's who I really am!
One day Einstein was at a reception with King Albert of Belgium. After tea there was a small amateur concert in which the Queen of Belgium took part. After the concert, Einstein approached the queen:
“Your Majesty, you played excellently! Tell me, why else do you need the profession of a queen?”
One lively journalist, holding a notebook and pencil, asked Einstein:
“Do you have a notebook or notebook where you write down your great thoughts?”
Einstein looked at him and said:
“Young man! Truly great thoughts come to mind so rarely that they are not difficult to remember.”
One lady friend asked Einstein to call her, but warned that her phone number was very difficult to remember: “24-361. Remember? Repeat!”
Einstein was surprised:
“Of course I remember! Two dozen, and 19 squared!”
Einstein adored Charlie Chaplin's films and had great sympathy for both him and his touching characters. One day he sent Chaplin a telegram:
"Your film "Gold Rush" is understood by everyone in the world, and I am sure that you will become a great man! Einstein."
Chaplin replied:
“I admire you even more. No one in the world understands your theory of relativity, but you still became a great man! Chaplin.”
When Einstein was visiting one day, it started to rain outside. The owners offered the leaving scientist a hat, but he refused:
“Why do I need a hat? I knew it would rain, so I didn’t take my hat. It’s obvious that the hat will take much longer to dry than my hair.”
One day, Einstein was walking along the corridor of Princeton, and a young and very untalented physicist met him. Having caught up with Eintain, he tapped him familiarly on the shoulder and asked patronizingly:
- How are you, colleague?
- Colleague? - Einstein asked in surprise. - Are you also suffering from rheumatism?
In the summer of 1909, in honor of its 350th anniversary, the University of Geneva, founded by Calvin, awarded more than a hundred honorary doctorates. One of them was intended for an employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern - Albert Einstein.
When Einstein received a large envelope, in which was enclosed a sheet of magnificent paper filled with some colorful text in an incomprehensible language, he decided that it was Latin (in fact it was French), moreover, the recipient was a certain Tinstein, and our hero sent the paper into the trash can.
He later learned that it was an invitation to Calvin's celebrations and a notification of the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva.
Since Einstein did not respond to the invitation, the university authorities turned to Einstein’s friend Lucien Chavant, who was able to convince Einstein to come to Geneva. But Einstein still knew nothing about the purpose of his trip and arrived in Geneva in a straw hat and casual jacket, in which he had to participate in the academic procession.
Here is what Einstein himself says about this case:
“The celebration ended with the most sumptuous feast I have ever attended. I asked one of the Genevan “city fathers” with whom I was sitting next:
"Do you know what Calvin would do if he were here?"
The neighbor was curious - what exactly? Then I replied:
“He would start a fire and burn us all for the sin of gluttony!”
My interlocutor did not make a sound, and this is where my memories of the glorious celebration end..."
One day, getting on a Berlin tram, Einstein, out of habit, began to read. Then, without looking at the conductor, he took out from his pocket the money that had been calculated in advance for the ticket.
“There’s not enough here,” said the conductor.
“It can’t be,” answered the scientist, without looking up from the book.
- And I’m telling you - it’s not enough.
Einstein shook his head again, saying, this can’t be. The conductor was indignant:
- Then count, here - 15 pfennigs. So five more are missing.
Einstein rummaged in his pocket and actually found the right coin. He felt embarrassed, but the conductor, smiling, said:
- Nothing, grandfather, you just need to learn arithmetic.
In 1898, Einstein wrote to his sister Maya:
“I have to work a lot, but still not too much. From time to time I manage to carve out an hour and laze around in the picturesque surroundings of Zurich... If everyone lived like me, there would be no adventure novels...”
One day Einstein was walking down the street, thoughtfully, and met his friend. He invited him to his home:
"Come to me in the evening, Professor Stimson will be with me."
The friend was surprised:
“But I am Stimson!”
Einstein responded:
"It doesn't matter - come anyway."
Einstein was famous for sometimes making notes on anything he could get his hands on (so he wouldn't miss a thought). Once he and his wife were invited to the opening of a new astronomical telescope. After the opening they were given a short tour. The guide who accompanied them, pointing to the telescope, said: With the help of this device we are discovering the secrets of the universe, to which Einstein’s wife immediately remarked:
- It’s strange, but for my husband all it takes is a stub of a pencil and a piece of paper...
Einstein once gave a presentation at a tense scientific conference. At the end of the conference, the organizers asked the scientist which moment of the conference was the most difficult for him.
Einstein replied:
“The biggest difficulty was to wake up the audience, which had fallen asleep after the speech of the chairman introducing me to the audience.”
Einstein completed his general theory of relativity in 1915, but world fame came to him only in 1919, when, after processing data from observations of a solar eclipse, Arthur Eddington and other English scientists confirmed the effect of deflection of light rays in a gravitational field predicted by the theory.
No one cared then, and even now few people are interested, in the fact that this effect was confirmed only qualitatively, and quantitative estimates of the displacement of the light beam differed by almost an order of magnitude from those predicted by theory. The point was the novelty of the discovery of the effect itself.
Einstein himself reacted to worldwide fame quite calmly and wrote in a Christmas card to his friend Heinrich Sanger:
“Fame makes me stupider and stupider, which, however, is quite common. There is a huge gap between what a person is and what others think about him or, at least, say out loud. But all this must be accepted without malice "
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Copyright: aphorisms quotes from 20th century authors
We can be convinced of the scientist’s wit and unconventional thinking by re-reading his brilliant statements.
45 Albert Einstein quotes:
- There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the Universe.
- Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
- Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.
- The question that puzzles me is: “Am I crazy or everyone else?”
- Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity.
- Marriage is an unsuccessful attempt to turn a random episode into something lasting.
- I am a deeply religious atheist. You could say that this is a kind of new religion.
- Life is like driving a bicycle. To maintain balance, you must move.
- The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
- Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.
- We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
- Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
- Only a fool needs order - genius rules over chaos.
- Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
- There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.
- I don’t know with what weapons the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
- There is no point in continuing to do the same thing and expect different results.
- You will never solve a problem if you think the same way as those who created it.
- People cause me seasickness, not the sea. But I'm afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.
- A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
- Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
- Mathematics is the only perfect method for fooling yourself.
- The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.
- If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
- International laws exist only in collections of international laws.
- Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
- The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.
- I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
- The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?
- I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.
- The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.
- A person who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.
- All people lie, but it’s not scary, no one listens to each other.
- If the theory of relativity is confirmed, the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.
- Imagination is the most important thing, it is a reflection of what we attract into our lives.
- To win, you first need to play.
- Never memorize anything you can find in a book.
- I'm too crazy not to be a genius.
- To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.
- If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child, you don't understand it yourself.
- Logic can take you from point A to point B, and imagination can take you anywhere...
- Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But not at all like that.
- If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, then what does an empty desk mean?
