He never met Einstein in person. A 1939 letter Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which he urged the US to research building an atom bomb, fetched $2 million at a 2002 auction.

On the other hand, Einstein supported the advancement of technology, too. In another quote recorded by the Quotable Einstein collection (p. 246), he said it internationally chained economies together.

In an online lecture, a professor mentioned that Einstein could draw or imagine a 4-dimensional figure. How can one possibly do that? This question was originally answered on Quora by Alon Amit.

Upon Einstein’s death of an aortic aneurysm at age 76, his heirs approved the removal of his brain. Many histological slides were made, documenting minute slices of the theoretical physicist’s ...

After Einstein became a teacher and physicist, he wasn't invited to participate in science gatherings because he was Jewish and had lived in Berlin during World War I, when Germans weren’t ...

Einstein called the latter device Der Volks-Kühlschrank, the people’s fridge. In the end, sadly, none of the three Einstein-Szilard fridges ever made it into anyone’s home.

Albert Einstein was arguably one of the most brilliant thinkers in the twentieth century. His contributions to physics are well documented. Although being a genius in one genre doesn’t guarantee ...

Given that Einstein died in 1955, it's extremely unlikely that something he actually said or wrote during his lifetime would not appear in any indexed works published before 2003. Also, as we've ...

Albert Einstein is easily one of the most brilliant physicists who ever lived. His theories of general relativity changed our understanding of the cosmos, as did his work on quantum theory.

Einstein's descendants did inherit his IQ, to an extent. First let's step back a little bit and talk about IQ heritability. IQ is highly heritable, and that heritability is largely driven by genes ...

Philosopher Henri Bergson didn't challenge Einstein's theory but, instead, a philosophy that grew up around it; Bergson's separation of science and metaphysics is worth considering, says Adam Frank.

Albert Einstein's letter to Glyn Davys touched on birds, bees, and Karl von Frisch. (Supplied: Dyer et al. 2021, J Comp Physiol A/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ...