Table of Contents Introduction 3 QuoteBank Twenty Famous Quotes 8 God 10 Science 12 War and Peace 15 Education and Teaching 17 Wisdom 19 Funny Quotes 21 Society 23 Personal 25 Einstein’s Historic speeches The Principles of Research 28 German League of Human Rights 30 Albert Einstein as Author The World as I See It 32 Out of my Later Years 33 Relativity: The Special and General Theory 34 This book is licensed under creative commons. In short: you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute its author(s) or licensor(s). Albert Einstein His Life and Times Albert Einstein Makes History and Inspires Hope With his shaggy unruly hair, of letters he has voiced his five years old his father showed unfashionable clothes and opinion on subjects as diverse as him a pocket compass. Even at prominent mustache Albert religion and war many of which this young age Albert felt that Einstein could be recognized are relevant even today. there was an unseen force which anywhere. He was the quintessential absent minded The beginning I am enough of an artist to professor—a man who would forget where he kept his car Born in Germany on March 14, d r a w f r e e l y u p o n m y keys but solved profound 1879. His father Hermann, a imagination. Imagination is problems of physics. He was a salesman and engineer and his m o r e i m p o r t a n t t h a n genius of high order who mother Pauline resided in Ulm knowledge. Knowledge is changed the way we perceive the i n t h e k i n g d o m o f limited. Imagination encircles universe with his theories. The Wurttemberg. They were Jews. the world. Times has hailed him as Person of The family shifted to Munich in Albert Einstein the Century. He was awarded the 1880. The family was not an Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. orthodox Jewish one and young One of the most brilliant Albert attended an elementary was guiding the needle. The scientists and an extraordinary catholic school. Though young compass made an indelible man he was also deeply Albert experienced difficulties in impression in Albert’s mind. compassionate and wanted to speech, he proved to be a brilliant When he was six his musically help his fellow creatures. A man student. When Albert was only coaxed him to learn violin. Create your own QuotesBank Account Visit Quotesbank.com Save and share your favorite quotes by Barack for great Quotes. Obama and others. Create beautiful eCards. inclined mother coaxed him to which he visualized traveling part of his job he dealt with learn violin. Though he detested along a beam of light. He decided transmission of electric signals these lessons the teacher to finish secondary school from and electrical-mechanical succeeded in developing in him a Aarau, Switzerland. At synchronization of time. These love for music. Mozart’s violin Switzerland he experienced the technical problems would be later sonatas were one of his favorite. pangs of love when he fell in love used in Einstein’s experiments. Albert displayed a scientific bend with Marie. The love affair was of mind from an early age. He doomed to failure. At 17 he Personal life tried his hand at building graduated from High School and mechanical devices. He also finally secured admission in ETH. Einstein married his former displayed an unusual ability to Switzerland polished his natural classmate Mileva Marić on 6 handle numbers. When Albert abilities. He had followed his January 1903 despite opposition was only ten a medical student father’s advice and renounced his from his mother. They were who was also his friend German citizenship. In 1896, blessed with a son Hans Albert introduced him to books on Einstein came into contact with Einstein who was born in Berne. mathematics and philosophy. his future wife Mileva Marić. She Another son Eduard was born in Albert’s sharp mind was quick to was his fellow student and had the Zurich. The marriage proved grasp these subjects. By the age of honor of being the only student short lived and finally ended in a 12 he had mastered Euclidean of her sex to study mathematics divorcé in February 1919. geometry. He was a student of a in ETH. In 1900 Einstein Einstein did not remain single for prestigious school Luitpold secured a degree in physics. In the long. In the same year he tied the Gymnasium. Einstein however same year one of Einstein’s knot with Elsa Löwenthal who hated the rules and regulations of friends introduced him to the was his cousin. Elsa had two the school which he felt thwarted works of Ernst Mach which was daughters from a previous creativity and hindered the free to have a major influence in his marriage who grew up in the development of thought. life. The very next year, Einstein Einstein household. published a paper in the The teens prestigious Annalen der Physik on That Wonderful Year the capillary forces of straw. He Albert experienced the first major also took Swiss citizenship in the In the year 1905, while he was change in his life when his family same year. still working in the patent office a left Germany to start a new life in leading German physic journal sunny Italy. It was here that he The first steps published four papers written by took the first tentative steps that Einstein. History was to later would take him to the road of Even though Einstein had name these papers Annus greatness. He wrote his first graduated, he failed to secure a Mirabilis Papers which are now scientific work, "The Investigation teaching job. After struggling for recognized as masterpieces in of the State of Aether in two years he finally got a job in science. The germs of fame were Magnetic Fields". Einstein did not Berne at the Federal Office for sown. One of his papers dealing complete High School. He Intellectual Property, the patent with the particulate nature of decided to apply to ETH Zurich, office, as an assistant examiner. light expounded the idea that the Swiss Federal Institute of His first job was to evaluate certain experimental results, Technology in Zürich, patent for electromagnetic notably the photoelectric effect, Switzerland. As he had not devices. Though Einstein’s life could be simply understood from cleared High School he was was monotonous he managed to the postulate that light interacts required to pass an entrance form a club on science with like with matter as discrete examination. Unfortunately minded friends called “The "packets" (quanta) of energy. Einstein failed even though he Olympia Academy". The Another paper on Brownian secured high marks in members of the club held weekly motion explained the random mathematics and physics. Failure meetings and pored over the movement of very small objects did not deter him. Einstein was works of Poincare, Mach, and as direct evidence of molecular gifted with an extraordinary Hume who were to have a action, supported the atomic mind. When he was only 16, he profound influence on him. As theory. His paper on the conceived a bold experiment in electrodynamics of moving bodies proving the scientific reason Mathematician Marcel proclaimed the new theory of behind why the sky appeared to Grossmann. Einstein began to special relativity, which showed be blue. During 1909, Einstein take an interest in Riemannian that the observed independence published "Über die Entwicklung geometry. Einstein now began of the speed of light on the unserer Anschauungen über das toying with the possibilities of observer's state of motion Wesen und die Konstitution der using general covariance in required fundamental changes to Strahlung" ("The Development of proving his theory on gravitation. the notion of simultaneity. In his Our Views on the Composition His research yielded fruit and by paper on mass–energy and Essence of Radiation"), on 1915 he had published a ground equivalence , Einstein gave birth the quantization of light. It gave breaking paper on the theory of to one of twentieth century’s most the photon concept which was relativity which is used till today. well known equation: E = mc2. later used to prove wave–particle Meanwhile Einstein decided to go This paper proved that even small duality in quantum mechanics. back to Berlin. He became a amounts of energy could be used Finally Einstein was able to leave member of the Prussian Academy to make massive amounts of Sciences and professor of energy. His theory a t t h e H u m b o l d t foreshadowed the advent University of Berlin. He of nuclear power. Though w a s f r e e f r o m m o s t the year 1905 is now teaching assignments to recognized as one of the enable him to devote more most wonderful years of time to research. Another Einstein’s life, where he honor came his way. In made ground breaking 1914 he was appointed achievements the papers director of the Kaiser were not well received by Wilhelm Institute for the scientific community. Physics which he served till They were mostly ignored 1 9 3 2 . M e a n w h i l e and the few who noticed Einstein’s fame began to them did not agree with spread. Some of the them. At the age of 26 extraordinary work he had Einstein had another done reached UK and the achievement under his US. After World War I he belt.