It is, in fact, nothing short a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
-Albert Einstein
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein
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The most important motive in the school and in life is the pleasure in the work.
-Albert Einstein
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
~ Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein
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Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-Albert Einstein
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically the mass-energy equivalence, E = mc 2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. "
Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which extended dthe principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problemsof statsitical mechanics and their applicaiton to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics.
Einstein published over 3,000 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works. Einstein is revered by the physics community, and in 1999 Time Magazine named him the "Person of the Century." In wider culture, the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius.
The above information was taken from the Einstein article on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, based on the GNU Free Documentation License.Links:
The Einstein Archives
Nova: Einstein's Big Idea (interactives, teachers guides)
Einstein: Image and Impact from the American Institute of Physics
Time Magazine's Person of the Century
Article about Einstein for kids
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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists 24 lectures by Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College
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