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His very name means "genius" to billions of people. Albert Einstein was one of the most significant scientists in history, reshaping the scientific community's view of the universe and persuading it to abandon its slavish loyalty to Isaac Newton's ideas, which he treasured but not enough to ignore their flaws. He's one of the few scientists instantly recognizable to the world, and so deep was his impact that he made such abstract (and frankly weird) concepts as relativity and mass-energy equivalence into household terms, familiar even to laymen who don't understand the science behind them. So come inside and explore the world of Albert Einstein: his life, his work, and his character.


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cutiger95 Quirky Information on Einstein 2 Jun 14 2008, 5:39 AM EDT by puchchu
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

This Einstein quote has always confused me some. It seems to say that he prefers that everyone do their own thing and leave everyone else alone. Very odd.
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blemons personal life 2 Jun 14 2008, 5:36 AM EDT by puchchu
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I think I have read in several places that Einstein had a muddled personal life and estrangement from his children. Is this true? Did he end up marrying a cousin or something like that?
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blemons regretted research 1 Jun 14 2008, 5:29 AM EDT by puchchu
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I was listening to a radio program just a little while ago and the guest was talking about how many in the scientific world suspect that Einstein regretted some of his findings, and later even tried to recant some of his work, due to his fear of what others would do with his discoveries. Do you think this could be true?
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