Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

1. Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist who developed a theory of general relativity, one of the pillars of modern physics alongside quantum mechanics.

   • Born: March 14, 1879 Death: April 18, 1955

2. Messy appearance

   • He built an image of "kind teacher, although sometimes distracted, but unfailingly sweet, who wandered lost in thought, helped people children with their homework and rarely combed or wore socks

3. "Imagination is more important than knowledge," he told journalist George Sylvester Viereck in an interview published in the Saturday Evening Post in October 1929.

4. Einstein was a very austere man. He had no ambition for money beyond what allowed him to live without luxury.

5. "Einstein's only instrument is his head. He doesn't need books, and his brain is his library"

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