Sublime

The … goal of all theory is to make the … basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of … experience. —Albert Einstein,1 physicist

Everything is relative to everything else—speed, time, distance, and so on—except for the speed of light, which never changes. This was called his theory of Simple Relativity, and in the years to come it would shake the foundations of physics and science.

Albert Einstein possédait un énorme gyrus angulaire

The fundamental postulate of the theory of relativity, as it was called, was that the laws of science should be the same for all freely moving observers, no matter what their speed.

Thanks to Einstein’s discoveries, our current problems in physics embody more knowledge than Einstein’s own problems did.

When Einstein, as a young patent clerk with no academic position published his Theory of Relativity, he was countered by a book titled 100 Authors Against Einstein. Einstein’s response to this, as he explained to a journalist, was: “If I were wrong, then one (author) would have been enough.”54

Einstein says, “never memorize anything you can look up.”