What are the most interesting facts about Albert Einstein?

He helped creating the atomic bomb

As Nazi Germany was rising fast, he wrote a letter to Roosevelt, saying that Germans are making the atomic bomb and proposed that USA makes their own. This is how Manhattan Project started.

The unofficial Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

This was his vision on stupidity 🙂

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Einstein smoked like crazy

He became the greatest physicist of all time due to a compass

We should be grateful to the fact the he became sick at the age of 5 and he stood in bed playing with a compass that his father gave him. This was the moment something sparkled in little Einstein’s brain. And he couldn’t stop after that.

Einstein did not like to wear socks

He did not care too much about his looks, or clothes. As you may see from most of his photos, his hair is uncombed quite often. He preferred not to wear socks, as he couldn’t stand the holes in them.

Yoda from StarWars was created after the looks of Albert Einstein

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Yoda_Empire_Strikes_Back.png

Einstein had a really bad memory

He could not remember names or dates. I think he was thinking too much of the thoughts that made him a celebrity 🙂

Einstein had quite a few wives and mistresses

• Mileva was his first wife
• Elsa was his second wife and.. cousin 🙂
• he thought of marrying also Elsa’s daughter, Ilse (from her ex-marriage of course). That happened before marrying her mother. Genius is strange, right?
• other women in his life: Estella, Ethel, Toni and Margarita, the Russian spy

• Einstein Failed his Entrance Exam for University

  but he applied again one year after

• Einstein could have been the president of Israel, but he said no to the proposal

  Embassy of IsraelNovember 17, 1952

  Dear Professor:

  The bearer of this letter is Mr. David Goitein of Jerusalem who is now serving as Minister at our Embassy in Washington. He is bringing you the question which Prime Minister Ben Gurion asked me to convey to you, namely, whether you would accept the Presidency of Israel if it were offered you by a vote of the Knesset. Acceptance would entail moving to Israel and taking its citizenship. The Prime Minister assures me that in such circumstances complete facility and freedom to pursue your great scientific work would be afforded by a government and people who are fully conscious of the supreme significance of your labors.

  Mr. Goitein will be able to give you any information that you may desire on the implications of the Prime Minister’s question.

  
  

  Whatever your inclination or decision may be, I should be deeply grateful for an opportunity to speak with you again within the next day or two at any place convenient for you. I understand the anxieties and doubts which you expressed to me this evening. On the other hand, whatever your answer, I am anxious for you to feel that the Prime Minister’s question embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons. To this element of personal regard, we add the sentiment that Israel is a small State in its physical dimensions, but can rise to the level of greatness in the measure that it exemplifies the most elevated spiritual and intellectual traditions which the Jewish people has established through its best minds and hearts both in antiquity and in modern times. Our first President, as you know, taught us to see our destiny in these great perspectives, as you yourself have often exhorted us to do.

  Therefore, whatever your response to this question, I hope that you will think generously of those who have asked it, and will commend the high purposes and motives which prompted them to think of you at this solemn hour in our people’s history.

  With cordial wishes, Abba Eban

  Einstein’s answer:

  “I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel [to serve as President], and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions. For these reasons alone I should be unsuited to fulfill the duties of that high office, even if advancing age was not making increasing inroads on my strength. I am the more distressed over these circumstances because my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.”

  Taken from here: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/einsteinlet.html

• Einstein’s brain was kept in a jar 20 years after his death

• Albert Einstein was not that gifted in school, he learned very slow and his speaking was quite the same, slow

  We cannot say the same thing about his brain, later on.

• Einstein saw his great theories in his head more than in his own lab

• Albert Einstein named himself an agnostic rather than an atheist, as people beleived

  So he was rather a sceptic. An agnostic knows that “we cannot know everything”.