Albert Einstein
9 quotes
“Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content?”
“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing”
“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c².”
“Opening of a letter to his friend Conrad Habicht in which he describes his four revolutionary Annus Mirabilis papers (18 or 25 May 1905) Doc. 27”
“Letter to Jost Winteler (July 8th, 1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfields and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 . Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude , editor of Annalen der Physik , had dismissed some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals.”
“Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
“Mes Projets d'Avenir”
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
“❝Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.❞ Repeated throughout his life, see: Quote Investigator”