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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Letter to a California student E. Holzapfel, March 1951

Was born on: 14.03.1879
About Author: Jewish, German-born physicist

God plays dice

I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.

The Life and Times

Nuclear chain reaction

In the course of the last four months it has been made probable — through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilárd in America — that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future.

Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, August 2nd, 1939

Einstein on God

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Inscribed in Fine Hall, Princeton University

In this sense I am religious

In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is.

My Credo, Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, 1932

Distances

Every description of events in space involves the use of a rigid body to which such events have to be referred. The resulting relationship takes for granted that the laws of Euclidean geometry hold for distances; the distance being represented physically by means of the convention of two marks on a rigid body.

Relativity: The Special and The General Theory (1920)

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