x-ray_delta_one/Flickr"Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose."
x-ray_delta_one/Flickr"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."
Pixabay"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."
kalamazoopubliclibrary/Flickr"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap."
-/AFP/Getty Images"One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness."
Wikimedia Commons"In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell."
TIME magazine's Person Of The Century, Albert Einstein changed the world immeasurably.
He revolutionized physics by developing the theory of relativity and devising the mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2. He helped make atomic weapons a reality, and then helped lead the charge against their usage.
He was, as TIME wrote, "unfathomably profound — the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed."
It's no surprise then that a man like that would utter some of the most fascinating, mind-bending, immortal words in all of modern history. See for yourself in the gallery of Albert Einstein quotes above.