Albert Einstein

such a system would also reject Ramanujan and lots of other geniuses of the past

— Dr Kareem Carr (@kareem_carr) November 16, 2025

 

Albert Einstein & Rabindranath Tagore || In Conversation

Albert Einstein met fellow Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore at his home in Berlin #OTD in 1930. The two distinguished minds explored the concepts of science, religion, consciousness, and philosophy.

Read an excerpt from their conversation: https://t.co/RqDwMYzWTC pic.twitter.com/Dfg41RCL70

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) July 14, 2019

Quotes or I Never Compared a Physician with a Carpenter or Vice Versa

"Don’t let your boy’s schooling interfere with his education"

                    • Mark Twain

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

                    • Albert Einstein

"First, there were the MANY who knew little and were VERY confident”

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"Then there were those who knew a little more and were less confident"

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"Lastly, there were the very few who KNEW considerable and were not confident at all"

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                    • Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

Einstein’s travel diaries reveal ‘shocking’ xenophobia || The Guardian

A page from Einstein’s travel journals, written while in China in 1922.


The Guardian

Private journals kept by the scientist and humanitarian icon show prejudiced attitudes towards the people he met while traveling in Asia

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Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once described racism as “a disease of white people” describes the “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” he observes. He notes how the “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” After earlier writing of the “abundance of offspring” and the “fecundity” of the Chinese, he goes on to say: “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
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Scientists Prove Einstein Was Right After Detecting Gravitational Waves

• Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them (newYorker)
(via DF)

• huffingtonpost

How Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity Changed The World || PBS

PBS's article

Physicists Are Funny Like That

#Einstein100 - General Relativity from Eoin Duffy on Vimeo.

A short film celebrating the centennial of Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

→ twitter.com/eoinduffy
→ fb.me/eoinduffyanimation

JAMIE LOCHHEAD - Writer / Producer
EOIN DUFFY - Design / Animation
DAVID TENNANT - Narrator
WESLEY SLOVER - Sound Design
ANAÏS RASSAT Writer / Science Outreach / Communication
A WINDFALL FILMS production for the SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

via theLoop

Einstein's general theory of relativity at 100: 5 great things it brought (cbcNews)

Astronomers Watch A Supernova And See Reruns || Dennis Overbye

• via DF

NYTimes:

… astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope say they have been watching the same star blow itself to smithereens in a supernova explosion over and over again, thanks to a trick of Einsteinian optics.