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- spkaine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44"Because up to now, everything was in order."
that's great - quomen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35oh no *****, thanks for catching me on my *****.
got the year wrong.. must be thinking of something else.
But he was offered it.. in 1952.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Israel - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39@ quomen
how was Einstein offered the presidency of a nation 9 years before it was created? - onionizer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Some yars ago I spoken with an old man (he's passed away now), a family friend, who met Einstein while he was studying at Columbia university. I remember that when I asked him how Einstein was like, he told me that he was a regular guy, friendly, and not very different from all the other professors at Columbia. The only weird thing, he said, is that he was never wearing socks.
- CancerBomb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Don't ever say that again.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Yeah, I saw that too. I takes a real ladies man to land your cousin...
Either way, that man is a genius. - antifolkhero, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29Most people's worst flaws are worse than his, and he was a genius to compensate, so who cares what his marital life was life. Typical of the "People Magazine" generation to give a *****.
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25E=mc2 was actually his locker combination
- r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25"ladies man". Looks to me like he was just putting his math skills to work. "If you can't ***** a 10, the least you can do is ***** five 2's."
Jeeze, she's hideous. - TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26twice.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22just another geek with bad hair and a good problem to solve.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19We have a word for that.
"Father".
Use it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14He didn't beat up Chuck Norris, he just used his superior intelect to convince Chuck to beat himself up..
- dreicher, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15There was no Israel in 1939. It didn't become a state until 1948. Einstein was offered the presidency in 1952. He sent a letter to Roosevelt in 1939 urging the US to build an atomic bomb.
Also, he did not win his Nobel Prize for his theories of relativity, but for his work on the "photoelectric effect". - phillydrifter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11He wasn't autistic, they thought he was autistic because he didn't learn to read until he was like 9 years old, and if you rtfa you'd see that he was always a quiet child.
I ***** hate people who talk without thinking and who say things that they aren't 100% sure are true. - jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Yeah, noting an incestuous relationship makes us the People magazine generation. OK.
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Einstein shortened it so nobody would mess with his stuff.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Of course it's fake. It's an old joke, and probably Yiddish in origin (see "Born to Kvetch" - http://www.amazon.com/Born-Kvetch-Yiddish-Language-Culture/dp/0312307411 - was on NY Tmes best seller list - about the Jewish penchant for complaining). The old joke: Some kid who never spoke a word until one day tat the dinner table he says "Soup's cold". His parents are astonished he is capable of speech: "What did you say?" He repeats: "Soup's cold". They ask: "You can speak! All your life, you never said a word. Why?" He answers: "Up until now, everything's been alright". Funny, because he never speaks until he has something to complain about, but obviously a joke. How could there never have been anything to complain about before that?
- ratnacage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and need for solitude..." ---Albert Einstein.
This is from an essay he wrote. Its pretty good. - cocoamix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Many years later, Harvey, who by then had gotten permission from Hans Albert to study Einstein’s brain, sent slices of Einstein’s brain to various scientists throughout the world. One of these scientists was Marian Diamond of UC Berkeley"
Wow. She was my anatomy professor at UCB and one of the best teachers I ever had. - robharper, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Sounds fake, too.
- brennankeller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6shouldn't it be E=mc^2
- WanderLink, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Another fact about Einstien:
Though he believed in no God or gods he actually detested Atheism and had great respect for religions. - otep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Einsteins Brain" ....sounds like an indie band.
- physphd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"but later won a nobel prize for GR."
Nope. He won in 1921 only. - themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Such a brilliant person couldn't even find his way home and sometimes forgot where he lived completely.
- wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and now that you read that, you have to repost it 2000 times or everyone from banana splits will appear in your mirror tomorrow morning.
- pandaweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3>>5871526
but never used them - mark101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3chaos7 "wow..i didn't know they saved his brain"
His brain was saved, praise the Lord. - Cloud7654, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's good because I have a brain too. A lot of people I know have brains.
- ZenShadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wrote a piece on the confirmation of E=mc^2 wherein high powered telescopes have recently witnessed energy becoming matter (the opposite of matter to energy). This has always been 'possible' via the equivalence of the equation (ie the equation goes 'both ways'). However it takes stupendeous energy for this to occur (and only the latest telescopes have the power to reach these extremely rare and, thus, extremely far away events). Here is the link: blogtopicz.com/item/2007/03/einstein-was-right-again (add the http)
- ladyarcher85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wasn't really surprised to find out that Einstein was a ladies' man.
A lot of women are attracted to a guy with brains. - rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2resplence:
I don't know why you are getting dugg down. I understood your comment, and got a laugh out of it. What resplence is pointing out is that the article overuses the exclamation mark! It annoyed me, too! - justin22290, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://duggmirror.com/celebrity/10_Strange_Facts_About_Einstein
- thebellmaster1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"In 1921, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 'for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.' This refers to his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect: 'On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light....'"
Christ, dude, you don't have to win a Nobel Prize in the same year that you published something. He didn't even publish a single work in that year, let alone anything on GR. That took place in the 1910s. Do some research before you pull years out of your ass. - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He also didn't believe that humans have free will. He wrote ( http://www.einstein-website.de/z_biography/credo.html )
"I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper." - aexny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you happen to be in the Columbus, OH area, there's a decent exhibit about Einstein at COSI, the Columbus science museum. Don't know how long it's there for though.
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You've obviously never truly studied Freud. Most psychologists have come to the conclusion that a large portion of Freud's theories came out of his own desire to "screw his mom," as it were.
- greenmountain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+211. He owned a vast collection of combs and hiurbrushes
- wonkavsn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I totally skimmed through the article and didn't realise my listing the above was completely redundant.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've heard this from somewhere else too but I can't quite place it, perhaps on Penn + Teller, they were interviewing someone i think.
- diggthisman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11. Einstein Was a Fat Baby with Large Head
2. Einstein Had Speech Difficulty as a Child
3. Einstein was Inspired by a Compass
4. Einstein Failed his University Entrance Exam
5. Einstein had an Illegitimate Child
6. Einstein Became Estranged From His First Wife, then Proposed a Strange "Contract"
7. Einstein Didn’t Get Along with His Oldest Son
8. Einstein was a Ladies’ Man
9. Einstein, the War Pacifist, Urged FDR to Build the Atom Bomb
10. The Saga of Einstein’s Brain: Pickled in a Jar for 43 Years and Driven Cross Country in a Trunk of a Buick! - HairyPoter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We will probably never see again other thinkers like Einstein. Today it is all about teams. This sickness of doing everything in teams. Teams should be applied just for repetitive tasks or brute force jobs, not for creation and imagination that are personal things. Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Newton, Kepler, Kant, Einstein were all individual thinkers. That's why today we are standing in a deep brown sea of mediocrity. I suspect that many guys in companies and researchers even poo in teams... disgusting.
- dmightx, on 09/21/2008, -0/+1Can someone tell us why he detested Atheism? I think I have an idea and we might be in similars boat. I would like to see why though. Wasn't the fact that he believed in no God turned him into an Atheist or was he something else?
P.S. I don't hate atheist or religions. I'm agnostic. - rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1one of his kids wound up in a sanitarium, (schizophrenia), which wasn't included, (in Nova TV documentary)
- hughv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I lived in Huntington, NY in the '50s, and my next door neighbor was a former lifeguard for the town who told me this story.
Apparently, Einstein lived somewhere nearby, and liked to row in the harbor. Her job was to swim out and tow him back in on these occasions, as he was unable to row back to shore. She never figured out the reason for this, but said he was a very kind man. if somewhat absent-minded. - WanderLink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think Einstien was probably Agnostic. And I think the way Einstien saw it was that neither the religious nor the athiest could definitely prove their point of views, but at least the religious have things that are beautiful like faith, traditions, and messages of peace, love, and humility. Einstien was raised Jewish and he even said that he thought Jesus was the greatest man who ever lived. I think Einstien realized that religion is something neccessary. That humans have a fundamental NEED to believe in something...anything. And that's special to be able to take leaps of faith like that, whereas athiesm is typically based around things negative like cynicism, skepticism, and the inability to appreciate subjects of wonder and mystery.
- skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hiurbrushes? Those thing were meant to ruin your hair.
- mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1does it hurt to talk out of your ass all the time
- Taciturn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+112. When he roundhouse kicks someone his leg becomes more dense as it increases in speed.
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