X marks the spot.

As for the last one, very bright people think may well think it is the natural state, so are not necessarily authorities on their own exceptional talents. A look through the kinds of material in the important papers he has authored contradicts any notion that he was not especially gifted in physics.

Several of these “quotations” are spurious – most notably the last one.

Maybe you should start thinking instead of just parroting what some non-geniuses claim.

If I’m wrong: Nothing new happened^^

Ps: One of the reasons I’d contemplate emmigration to some nice place, like the moon.

Wouldn’t the possession of truth be more precious? If you are constantly searching for truth, that means you do not possess much of it.

Einstein was not a genius; his brain was exactly like yours.

…so does everyone else, genius. You study neurology you said?

Tell me one person where this isn’t the case.Just one.

It seems you like “magical thinking”.

Ps: It’s Einstein.

I think this is a very shortsighted view.If we’d think more along the lines of Christian’s comment, how knows how many more works from other people we’d have about which you could say the same thing!?

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” – Albert Einstein

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” – Albert Einstein

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein

“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” – Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Juliusburger;

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” – Albert Einstein

“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.” – Albert Einstein

“Where there is love there is no question.” – Albert Einstein

“I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” – Albert Einstein

“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.” – Albert Einstein

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” – Albert Einstein

“Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.” – Albert Einstein

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” – Albert Einstein

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” – Albert Einstein

“Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?” – Albert Einstein

“He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.” – Albert Einstein

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein

“I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.” – Albert Einstein

“Truth is what stands the test of experience.” – Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein

“Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn’t play dice.” – Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a [person] does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence.” – Albert Einstein

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” – Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It’s futile to gaze at the world through a car window.” – Albert Einstein

“I love to travel, But hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

“Politics is more difficult than physics.” – Albert Einstein

“I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.” – Albert Einstein

“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.” – Albert Einstein

To settle the matter, one really needs a longitudinal study. With MRI scan techniques, this would be easy now. But we need to wait for 30+ years to know the result. Besides, I suspect a lot of taxi drivers are already using GPS and, anyway, in 30 years it could be difficult to pinpoint any remaining HUMAN taxi driver in London ;-)

Afaik Einstein visualized things with his famous “thought-experiments”, and then later used the language of math to formalize what he has found.He wasn’t the first to do it that way.Of course, this is a gross oversimplification.

But I ask myself: Why do so many people prefer the idea of him being “genetically” superior in certain areas!? Maybe as a form of excuse for not achieving anything themselves?

@Bri: It’s EinstEIn ;)

“One of the only” makes no sense.

Did anyone achieve anything worthwhile (in the larger scheme of things) without straining at least a bit!?

About math: As far as I know he was really talented at maths, his teacher bought him an advanced maths book and send him away from school at a rather young age because he couldn’t teach him anything he didn’t already know.

I guess he knew his math back then.At least better than the two of us, I guess^^