Trivia of the life of Albert Einstein

Pedro Danilo Beltran

Trivia of the life of Albert Einstein

For him, to be a genius you have to be a little crazy.

Einstein - Pie, Einstein had facilities for mathematics and science but not for languages. Photo: alberteinstein.info

The life of Albert Einstein, one of the most important scientists in history, has been plagued with curiosities. Surely no one had predicted that this little German born who, it is said, began to speak correctly at age 9 was going to be who finally was.

Even at birth the back form of her brain is said to be so strange that her family believed she had a malformation. However, when he was 5 years old, his father's gift of a girlfriend while he was in sick bed aroused his interest in the science that motivated him to reformulate the concept of gravity and create the famed Special Theory of Relativity in 1905.

As it is narrated in the books, it had to attend to particular classes to be able to pass the test of admission to the university given that although it had approved the ones of science and mathematics it had not been able with the ones of languages, histories and geography.

He went from being a simple employee of a patent company in Switzerland to becoming the most prestigious scientist. His brain, once deceased in 1955, is preserved to this day.

According to the researchers who analyzed it, it had a greater number of glial cells, compared to a normal brain, located in the part responsible for the synthesis of information.

Next, we will review 15 great sentences of his authorship, published in the portalMuyintersantes.es

- "The mind is like a parachute ... It only works if we have it open"

- "We are all very ignorant. What happens is that we do not all ignore the same things"

- "Imagination is more important than knowledge"

- "The greatest mystery in the world is that it is understandable"

- "Everything should be simplified as much as possible, but no more"

- "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

- "All science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thought"

- "Education is what remains once we forget everything you learned in school"

- "The important thing is not to stop asking questions"

- "I never think about the future, it comes too soon"

- "Two things are infinite: human stupidity and the universe, and I am not sure of the second"

- "Not everything that counts can be quantified, and not everything that can be quantified counts"

- "Madness is doing the same thing over and over again hoping to get different results"

- "First you have to learn the rules of the game, and then play better than anyone else"

- "There is a motive force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy: the will"