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Albert Einstein
Anyone can be a genius if they pick one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day. As a human being one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. God doesn't play dice. If one purges the Judaism of the prophets and Christianity as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity. Imagination is more important than knowledge. I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer. It is still the best to concern oneself with eternals, for from them alone flows the spirit that can restore peace and serenity to the world of humans. No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. Our task must be to free ourselves ... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour; and it seems like a minute. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. The important thing is not to stop questioning. The only rational way of education is to be an example. If one can’t help it, a warning example. Those who would preserve the spirit must also look after the body to which it is attached. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the inquiring and constructive mind. Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Profile / Biography Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Württemberg, Germany. His family moved shortly after his birth to Munich. When the family business in manufacturing electric parts failed, they moved to Milan, Italy. Albert dropped his German citizenship and became a Swiss citizen in 1901. During his youth, Albert studied the violin and taught himself advanced mathematics and physics, the only subjects that he had an interest in. He graduated from the Swiss Polytechnic School in Zurich in 1900 with a BS in Physics For the following two years, Albert looked for a job and gave up on the idea to teach at a university. He worked at a Patent Office from 1902 to 1909 in Bern. In 1905 he obtained his doctorate degree. He wrote On a new determination of molecular dimensions, the special theory of relativity and his quantum theory in 1905. In 1909 he resigned from the patent office and taught physics at the university of Zurich. in 1911 he taught in Prague, and came back to Switzerland in 1912 to teach. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute at the University of Berlin. He traveled to United States in 1921 and received the Nobel prize for his work on the photoelectric effect. In 1932, Albert received a teaching position at Princeton University. Because Hitler came into power in Germany in 1933, Albert never returned to Germany. Albert received many teaching position in countries such as France, England, Spain and Israel. He turned them all down and kept teaching at Princeton. He became a US Citizen in 1940 and tried to promote peace among nations. He died and was cremated on April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey. |
