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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a German-American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent, born in Ulm, Germany, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "miracle year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics." · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

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"And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way."

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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

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"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."

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"According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."

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"The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts."

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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

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