Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is a man who will forever hold a place in human history. His capacity for thought was nothing short of brilliant and his ideas have changed the world. The German-born physicist and philosopher established the theory of relativity and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, yet most people know him for his famous mass-energy equivalence formula (E = mc^2). These 10 quotes give us a glimpse inside of the mind of the man that Time magazine dubbed ‘Person of the Century’ in 1999. Regarding politics "I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever." [The Yale Book of Quotations] Regarding relativity "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." [The Yale Book of ...