Quote

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

Albert Einstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
Inventor
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Patent Examiner
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
Professor
Science Writer
Ulm alb-Donau
Einstein
A. Einstein
Special
Maxwell
Origins
Owes
Relativity
Equations
Field
Fields
Theory
Electromagnetic

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
Albert Einstein
Image
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
Image
Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.
Albert Einstein
Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
Albert Einstein
Image
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
Image
It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
Albert Einstein
Image
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
Albert Einstein
Image
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
Image
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
Albert Einstein
Image
If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us
Albert Einstein
Image
The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.
Albert Einstein
Image
It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.
Albert Einstein
Image
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein
Image
My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as laws of nature.
Albert Einstein
Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
Albert Einstein
Image
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
Albert Einstein
Image
Nothing happens until something moves.
Albert Einstein
Image
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Image
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
Albert Einstein
Image
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein