Happy birthday, Albert Einstein! 03:00 15/03/2010, John Baichtal, science, MAKE: Blog

Happy birthday, Albert Einstein! 03:00 15/03/2010, John Baichtal, science, MAKE: Blog


Einstein, that would be 131 today, needs no introduction. The most important physicists of the 20th century, took a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the more intellectual centers of world history. Nobel Prize. He has published papers on the physics of this type of topics related to molecular physics, thermodynamics, the behavior of photons, statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, etc.. Before becoming a professor who worked at the Swiss Patent Office in nearly a decade, the assessment of recent electrical inventions.

Well, he was a genius, got it. But perhaps the best we can learn from Al was his humanity. He was not a team: he made mistakes, had pet theories he promoted despite being clearly wrong, another laughed science that proved true.

What we can learn from the mistakes of Einstein is that it's okay for ourselves. We will make a glorious mess that the next project. Let's try something that probably will not work. Let tilt windmills of established thought. Who knows, we might learn something?

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