“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
Albert Einstein
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Primary source)
In this book Einstein explains the core ideas of his revolutionary theories in a way accessible to non-specialists. The book is structured in three parts: an introduction to the Special Theory of Relativity, an explanation of the General Theory of Relativity, and a final section addressing the broader implications and unresolved issues.
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein Secondary source“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively.”
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“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
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— Ernest Hemingway Primary source