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German · 1879-1955 · 31 quotes
German · 1879–1955
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Albert Einstein was the German-born theoretical physicist who published the special theory of relativity in 1905, the general theory in 1915, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his discovery of the photoelectric effect. Born in Ulm in 1879, he struggled in conventional academic settings before securing a post at the Bern patent office, where he did the most productive intellectual work of the century. He left Germany for Princeton in 1933 when Hitler came to power and remained in America until his death in 1955. His aphorisms reflect the same qualities that made him a physicist: impatience with pretension, insistence on thinking from first principles, and a dry comic sensibility that made the abstract concrete. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love is both a joke and a precise statement about the limits of physical explanation.
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