Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.