Einstein, facts and myths
Einstein did not made any discovery beyond 36
This is the age of 26 he made his first discoveries. He described the year 1905 as a miraculous year, he published a thesis on the photoelectric effect that won him the Nobel Prize (in 1921). It also stated the same year the equation E = mc ² and the theory of relativity.
The latter had already been described by the mathematician Poincaré. Its unique discovery was the theory of general relativity in 1915, so at age 36.
In 1927, at age 48 he developed the foundations of quantum mechanics with Niels Bohr. It is a collective work, his last personal discovery was in 1915. In fact in 1935 he criticized the quantum mechanics stating the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.
It failed in the following years to demonstrate the theory of the existence of a unified field.
Miley Cyrus is better than Einstein - in her field
The blunders of Einstein
Einstein was so much the object of attention by journalists, all big fans of the theory of relativity, and was so prodigiously annoyed to the point that he sometimes answered : "Sorry, I know that often one believe I am Albert Einstein."
Once he believed malignant to answer to papparazis by showing his tongue. It was not a good idea because this photo toured the world.
This is why we can say that in her field at least - in sciences it is less certain - Miley Cyrus is more malignant. Her pictures where she sticks her tongue went around the world, but that is what she is looking for...
Another error that shows that nobody is scientist outside his field. Einstein had such a hatred of the Nazis he was convinced they were in the way to make the atomic bomb. He wrote to the president of the USA to prevent this danger, which led to the Manhattan Project, the construction of the first atomic bomb.
When it was over, Germany was beaten and out of the equation (and no atomic bomb project was found). This is Japan which has "benefited" of it. Einstein opposed it and was mortified.
Stateless
To avoid being drafted into the army, he resigned in 1896 his German citizenship. For four years he was stateless. The irony is that Hitler was an Austrian and he enlisted in the German army for the citizenship.
In 1901 he obtained Swiss citizenship. In 1919 he becomes German again. In 1933 he left Germany and he became an American citizen in 1940.
He abandoned his daughter
In 1901 he put his girlfriend Milena Maric pregnant. But his daughter born in 1902 did not know his father, she was placed for adoption. He further married his girlfriend in 1903, at that time he worked as a clerk in the patent department of Switzerland. It is not known what happened to the poor Lieserl. Some say she died very young.
Steve Jobs has the same behavior with her daughter Lisa.
Einstein and God
Although he says to be an atheist at least in one occasion, in an interview with Guy H. Raner Jr July 2, 1945, he has not failed to refer to God. One of his most famous quotes concerned quantum mechanics:
God does not play dice.
God is always there when you need him.
Pantheistic
Einstein said to be Pantheist. He believed in a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the world of material experience. Rationality and intelligibility of the world is beyond all scientific thinking.
About the Catholic Church, he has long hated it, but later confessed for having a great affection and admiration to it because it was the only one to get in the way of Hitler in his campaign to remove the truth.
This contradicts those who claim that the church was complicit in Nazism, in fact thousands of priests were deported.
Lenin
Quote from Einstein before 1917:
"I honor Lenin as the man who has completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice. I do not consider his methods to be applicable, but one thing is certain: people of this kind are the guardians and restorers of humanity. "
The one who established the red terror and massacred the Romanov family had a strange way of restoring mankind.
Einstein advocated socialism and condemned capitalism, but strangely it was in the most capitalist of countries that he preferred to take refuge in 1933. Between what one says and what one does, there is a difference.
The myth of the bad student
Einstein was bad at math, according to a popular belief. He had bad grades in school, and it was his wife who made all the calculations that led to his discoveries. About the second point, it is disputed by historians, but for the first, there is no doubt about that, as in the scoring system of 6 points in his time in Austria, he had the maximum score of 6. This is the rating that is at the origin of the legend : in other countries, a score of 6 is poor because it is 6 out of 20 !
The myth of Marilyn Monroe
Another urban legend : Marilyn Monroe told him : "We should have a child together, imagine if he had my body and your brain ?". And then Einstein would have replied: "Yes, but imagine if he had my body and your brain?".
This replica was actually transposed directly form a reply of George Bernard Shaw to the actress Isodora Duncan.