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Einstein's thought experiment as a 16-year-old student. Einstein's recollections of his youthful musings are widely cited because of the hints they provide of his later great discovery. However, Norton has noted that Einstein's reminiscences were probably colored by a half-century of hindsight.
These Albert Einstein quotes take you right inside the mind of a true genius. The post 35 Brilliant Albert Einstein Quotes to Inspire You to Greatness appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Derrida values the distinctiveness of every individual speech act, because it has a specific effect in the particular situation in which it is performed. [5]: 9 It is because of this effect or 'breaking force' that Derrida calls the possibility of repeating a text 'iterability', a word derived from Latin iterare, to repeat.
On the subject of Einstein quotes on God and religion, the most complete compendium can be found in this list of quotes "Einstein the atheist on religion and God" by Coel Hellier, a Professor of Astrophysics at Keele University in the UK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ROO BOOKAROO (talk • contribs) 21:15, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Einstein gave a speech about racism in America, adding, I do not intend to be quiet about it. [165] A resident of Princeton recalls that Einstein had once paid the college tuition for a black student. [164] Einstein has said, Being a Jew myself, perhaps I can understand and empathize with how black people feel as victims of discrimination. [161]
— Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States (5 January 1933), to a carpenter working on his house "The important thing is knowing how to live. Learn a lesson from my mistakes. I had too much power before I knew how to use it and it defeated me in the end. It drove all sweetness out of my life except the affection of my children.
Einstein himself considered the introduction of the cosmological constant in his 1917 paper founding cosmology as a "blunder". [3] The theory of general relativity predicted an expanding or contracting universe, but Einstein wanted a static universe which is an unchanging three-dimensional sphere, like the surface of a three-dimensional ball in four dimensions.
This advice often presented itself as thinly veiled warnings," she explained, adding, "I became a young adult while being fed the message that if I didn’t make any mistakes, all the children of ...