(1879—1955) physicist, author of theory of relativity. "Albert Einstein reshaped our cosmos by supplanting long-treasured concepts of physics with shockingly counterintuitive ideas about the nature of space and time. It is no accident his name has become a synonym for genius. Yet, throughout his life the seeming contradictions of this complex man made him a controversial figure." Tags: Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head ...
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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