These quotes can be found in The Expanded Quotable Einstein; Calaprice, Alice (Editor). (c) 2000 Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship material success as a preparation for his future career. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

There is only one road to human greatness: through the schools of hard knocks. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited , wheras imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves- such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty…The ideals which have guided my way, and time after time have given me the energy to face life, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

In the last analysis everyone is a human being, whether he is an American or a German, a Jew or a Gentile. If it were possible to hold only this worthy point of view, I would be a happy man. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Astatine is an element so rare that if you searched the entire planet you’d only find a lump the size of a sugar cube.

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

The maximum speed that raindrops can fall at is around 18mph, depending on their size.

If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

12 Astronauts have walked on the moon, between them bringing back 382 kilograms of rocks, pebbles, sand and dust.

Whales talk to each other by making a loud clicking noise. The sound waves travel extremely well underwater and they can hear each other from 100 miles away.

A TV screen shows 24 pictures a second. Because a fly sees 200 images a second, it would see TV as still pictures with darkness in between.

Cats can see clearly in one-sixth the amount of light we humans would need. This is due to a special layer of cells at the back of their retinas, which acts like a mirror, reflecting light back to the retina's cells.

In 1936 Professor Alfred Gaydon underwent surgery on his eyes after an accident. When his sight began to return he found that he could see ultra-violet light, which is normally beyond the visible spectrum of humans. This helped in his work as a physicist, but it did distort how he saw other colours!

Because of thermal expansion the Eiffel Tower is 15cm taller in summer.

Some people who have two or more different kinds of fillings in their teeth are able to hear high-power AM broadcast stations when located within a few hundred feet of the stations. In such cases, the strong radio waves act upon the teeth fillings in such a way that the electromagnetic oscillations get transformed to mechanical vibrations in the person's head, and these are heard as sound.

The amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface is 6,000 times the amount of energy used by all human beings worldwide. The total amount of fossil fuel used by humans since the start of civilization is equivalent to less than 30 days of sunshine.

Tree crickets are called the poor man's thermometer because temperature directly affects their rate of activity. Count the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds, then add 37. The sum will be very close to the outside temperature in farenheit!

The highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole was minus 13 degrees centigrade.

If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth!

On average, airliners will get struck by lightning once every year.

You weigh less if you stand at the equator than if you stood at the north pole. This is because the equator is actually further away from the centre of the earth, so the force of gravity is less.

Engineers at NASA claim to have made the loudest noise ever: of 210 decibels. This is so loud that it can make holes in solid materials.

The mass of the Earth increases every year because of 3,000 tonnes of meteorite debris that hits its surface from space.

Who choked on their own invention? Hubert Cecil Booth, the inventor of the vacuum cleaner. In testing how it would work, he was sucking dirt by mouth through a piece of material and ended up with a lungful of dust!

The microwave oven was invented by accident, when Percy Spencer found that his chocolate bar had been melted by an experiment he was running on radar systems. He immediately started experimenting successfully on microwaved popcorn.

A supernova is the most energetic single event known in the Universe. Material is exploded into space at about 10,000 kilometres per second. All the stars in our galaxy (about 100,000,000,000) would have to shine for six months to produce the amount of energy released by just one supernova.
The planet Venus’s day is longer than its year. It takes 225 ‘Earth’ days to rotate around the Sun (a Venusian year) and 243 ‘Earth’ days to rotate on its axis (a Venusian day).

It takes the energy output of at least one power station to keep the traffic lights in the British Isles operating.

One kilogram of butter stores as much energy between its atoms as the same quantity of TNT.

Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
IBM's ASCI white supercomputer, the fastest computer in the world, weighs as much as 17 elephants and can do in one second what a calculator would take 10 million years to do.

Do astronauts burp? Because you are weightless in space, the contents of your stomach float and tend to stay at the top of your stomach, under the rib cage and close to the valve at the top of your stomach. Because this valve isn't a complete closure (just a muscle that works with gravity), if you burp, it becomes a wet burp from the contents in your stomach. Gross!
The Moon is gradually moving away from the Earth and the tides are to blame. Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.

Gold leaf is pure gold, but you can cover large areas with it very cheaply because it is very thin. Gold leaf is less than 0.00008 millimetres thick - which is only about 300 atoms thick.

Every rainbow is unique - each rainbow is formed from light hitting your eye at a very precise angle. Someone standing next to you will see light coming from a slightly different angle than you and therefore see a different rainbow.
A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 160,000 pieces of bread. Unfortunately the bolt only takes 1/10,000 of a second – so turning the bread over might prove difficult.

If 10 kilograms of matter spontaneously turned into energy there would be enough energy to power a 100 Watt light bulb for 300 million years - a harrowing thought for all weight watchers.

Some qoutes i have added

'There does arise, however, a strange difficulty. The interpretation of the galactic line-shift discovered by Hubble as an expansion leads to an origin of this expansion which lies only a billion years ago, while physical astronomy makes it appear likely that the development of individual stars and systems of stars takes considerably longer. It is no way known how the incongruity is to be overcome.'

'Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.'

'I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony
of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the
doings of mankind.'

'A human being is part of the whole called by us
universe, a part limited in time and space. We
experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings
as something separate from the rest. A kind of
optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is
a type of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by
widening our circle of compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty'

'All conflicts between science and religion have all sprung from deadly errors.'

Nice copy'n'paste. :rolleyes:

Most of those are "fun physics facts" (read 'unsupported trivia'), not quotes from Einstein.

Was there a point to this?

No, they are his qoutes pete :) Einstein is the guru of physics -- a guide to understanding existence, and that's the point.

Get real, Reiku! Einstien never said half of that.

Perhaps you should also study some history - he died in 1955 which was a full 14 years BEFORE man ever set foot on the Moon and decades before the first space shuttle launch. Did you honestly not know those things??????

No, they are his qoutes pete :) Einstein is the guru of physics -- a guide to understanding existence, and that's the point.So he knew about the ASCI white supercomputer, built after 1998? And why would facts like "The highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole was minus 13 degrees centigrade." and "If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away." be attributed to Einstein.They don't give any amazing insight into how science works. Did Einstein do the measurements at the South Pole? I doubt it so even if he did say that, he's just parroting a fact someone else said and he heard. Or "On average, airliners will get struck by lightning once every year.". When Einstein dead mass use of aeroplanes didn't exist. NASA wasn't formed until 3 years after Einstein died!

You didn't even bother to read your own copy and paste!

I apologise. I never read the dates, and the source was deceiving, because it was supposed to be ''Einsteins Qoutes...''

For a lack of attention, i give myself -3 :(

I obviously never took in the reality of the qoutes, and the time Einstein lived. This was very sloppy. Sorry Ben.

I apologise. I never read the dates, and the source was deceiving, because it was supposed to be ''Einsteins Qoutes...''

For a lack of attention, i give myself -3 :(

:spank:

You did know that the famous letter by Einstein to the prez about advocating nuclear power wasn't written by Einsten, didn't you?

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

The space shuttle actually accelerates pretty slowly. It does something like 30 m/sec/sec. That's low even by the standards of jet aircraft. The special thing about it is that it can mantain that acceleration for 8 minutes at a time, which is what allows it to reach space.
A TV screen shows 24 pictures a second. Because a fly sees 200 images a second, it would see TV as still pictures with darkness in between.
Not really. It takes 1/24 of a second for the screen to completely redraw an image. It's not like the images appear instantly and then goes away. The fly would never see black, it would always see about 1/10 of the total image. The 1/10 that it was seeing would change from one moment to the next, as different parts of the screen were drawn.
A supernova is the most energetic single event known in the Universe. ...Gamma ray bursts are considerably more energetic than supernovas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst

Nasor :)

For the second asumption, the calculation work out quite well. The human takes in 6 billion images in a day. Images are actually a map for how fast perception works. I do believe that the human percpetion runs about 8 times faster than a dog.

When considering the shuttle, i think one must consider its final acceleration value, and not the past tense of acceleration t=0.

Gamma ray bursts have also been shown to be in considerable error of energy... speak to Dr. Wagner for the results.

Cosmic...

... my bad :( I feel like a right numptie

Sysgyz

No, i wasn't aware ... :)

It was written by Leo Szilard, but since he was less known outside of science circles, they asked Einstein to let use his name and fame....

Apparently it worked, thus the Manhattan project...

Einstein, as far as know, didn't even believe that the projects main target could be reached until someone pushed him

Hi Reiku and others---

You may have noticed that I renamed the thread to better reflect the contents.

Thank you Ben. I felt like a right retard after that charade Lol

Gamma ray bursts have also been shown to be in considerable error of energy... speak to Dr. Wagner for the results.So one 'physicist' who cannot produce numbers to back up his claims and who is silly enough to file a law suit against a European group with a Hawaii court is right but all the many other people who actually have published work on this stuff aren't?

I once asked him for the details of his claimed results. He never provided. So it's not worth asking him for results.

Since ben quite rightly changed the notion of the thread, let's do some trivia.

Some facts i know:

1) You can squeeze all the subatomic matter the earth is made of into the size of matchbox, due to the fact our earth is not very dense.

2) Bradyons are the only particles that experience a time dimension. We are bradyons on a macroscopic level.

3) Light travels 6.5 billion miles in one year

4) There is an equal amount of protons and electrons in the universe

5) A photon will take all possible Eigenstates before one single state is resolved through decoherence or an observation

6) Is a discontinuous change from one state to another. A particle that quantum leaps, will move from one place to another without ever going in between, as if it vanishes of the spacetime map for a fraction. The entire universe can quantum leap over time. And according to the Copenhagen Interpretation, the universe does quantum leap everytime we make an observation

7) An atom, ripe to radiate energy, can be suspended in time through simple observation.

8) Ancient Roman philosopher Lucretius pointed out over 2000 years ago, that there was a paradox concerning the boundary, or edge of the universe. He states, that for there to be an edge, it would mean that the universe had something beyond it to show it was the edge. Well before any relative theory described the universe as being self-consistent

9) The sun is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium and 2% heavy elements - the stuff earth is made of.

10) The earth came from a 'Supernovae' 6 billion years ago. All planets and stars are thought to have come from the death of Supernovae - including our own solar system, where the sun makes up 99.8% of the mass.

11) The surface of the sun is called the 'photosphere' and it is a melting 6000 degrees Celsius. Outside the surface of the photosphere is the 'red chromosphere.' This inner solar sphere blasts out gas called 'prominences,' hurtling billions upon billions of electrically charged particles towards earth every second.

12) Our sun will eventually die out in 5 billion years time - and when it does it will expand 200 times larger and will consume mercury and Venus.

13) Our Galaxy, the Milky Way has something like 200 billion stars, being 100,000 lightyears across and 10,000 lightyears thick

14) It takes 222 million years for our sun to orbit the galactic center

15) Our galaxy is one of an estimated 50 billion in the universe, where some galaxies have grouped with 12 other galaxies, whereas others have grouped in thousands!

16) Volcanic eruptions constantly reshaped the face of the planet, forming the geological structures we see and admire today. By now, oceans had formed from volcanic condensed water vapor and also from large chunks of ice from comets carried to earth from deep space

17) . In fact, 'Panspermia theory' states that comets could have brought 'polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons' to earth, and could have brought the origins of life to earth in the form of simple microbes. The strongest evidence of this was announced, rather bizarrely by President Clinton standing on the Whitehouse lawn, saying that NASA had discovered evidence of possible life in the subsurface of Mars.

18) A cabbage-sized meteorite, found recently in Antarctica, dubbed ALH84001 that seemed to have come from the 'red planet' had in it tiny features, that according to NASA scientists could have been fossilized microbes. The only problem is that the little marks are under high controversy, and not every scientist is convinced it is in fact, fossilized Martian life. The skeptics however admit, the tiny marks do have all the appearances of bacterium - but are considered far too small to be living organisms - which is all very interesting, considering this presumed life came from an entirely different planet; you would expect some biological differences wouldn't you? However, NASA did find organic chemicals inside of the meteorite, including carbonates, which also included tiny magnetic grains that can be produced by bacterium - but such grains can be produced without the aid of life.

19) More importantly, was a recent discovery in 2006 that seemed to prove the existence of subsurface water channels. Recent photography of the red planet displayed that a substance that looks like water had seeped out of loose rocks on the planets rocky surface - which most geologists believe itself hold all the characteristics of being formed by water itself that might have flowed around 3.5 billion years ago! This discovery will indeed make scientists think twice about astrobiology in the future, considering water is one of the fundamentals needed to sustain life

20) Gases from the interior of the earth created the early atmosphere, which were mainly nitrogen and carbon dioxide. And it is believed lightning was needed as a catalyst to charge the first simple organisms. These organisms needed four basic elements; they are carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen.

21) The first life would have been very simple, called 'prokaryotes,' which are single-celled organisms. It is thought that the single-celled life formed in hot springs, heated by the earth around 3.8 billion years ago. There is still evidence of them today, clinging to hot vents deep under the ocean... not changed after 4 billion years!

22) Then, mulitcellular organisms came about and life began to double every 12 million years.

23) 'Cyril Hinshelwood, a Nobel Laureate in physical chemistry
has suggested that a more appropriate name for particles
(of elementary physics) might be ''manifestations''.'

Lyall Watson, Lifestream

24) The 'electron' is the smallest subatomic particle in physics labs today. It has no apparent structure - it appears thus to have no apparent size! Though, it contains definite mass, and behaves as though it is spinning. We can shoot the electron out of a special gun, and it will move in a bullet form. If the electron is restrained from motion, it instantly turns into a wave form! The electron contains an exact charge of 1.6^10-19 coulombs.

25) It was believed for a while the electron orbited the nucleus like a planet orbiting a star - but instead, it has become to be accepted that it does in fact exist in all spaces within the atom in the form of a cloud

26) Then physicist Brian Greene postulated that the electron maybe a 'micro Black Hole'. The smallest a Black Hole can ever be is in accordance with a very small measurement called the 'Planck Mass' which is 2 x 10^-8kg or 1.1 x 10^19 GeV, that is 'Gravito-electro Vaults'. Of course, a Black Hole of this scale is purely hypothetical - but if primordial Black Holes do indeed exist, all fundamental particles could potentially be Black Holes.

27) The 'proton' has a positive electrical charge +1 and a mass of 938 MeV, that is Mega-Electro Vaults or 1.6726231x10^-27kg, or about 1800 times the mass of the electron.

28) The proton is classed as a 'Baryon', which are always made up of three quarks. The proton has what are called 'two up quarks' and 'one down quark'. The 'neutron' has one up quark and two down quarks - thus it is also a Baryon. It has a mass of 940 MeV, which is slightly more than a proton. The fact that neutrons have absolutely no electrical charge actually delayed its discovery and makes them impossible to observe directly - thus makes them very important in nuclear change.

29) Although atoms themselves are uncharged, they are a massive 10,000 times larger than a neutron

which are some facts off the top of my head. I'm now blank :(

So one 'physicist' who cannot produce numbers to back up his claims and who is silly enough to file a law suit against a European group with a Hawaii court is right but all the many other people who actually have published work on this stuff aren't?

I once asked him for the details of his claimed results. He never provided. So it's not worth asking him for results.

I'm willing to nominate you for retard of the year. Congrats. Or if not even retard, certainly the most unsociable.

When considering the shuttle, i think one must consider its final acceleration value, and not the past tense of acceleration t=0.

I am not sure what you mean here. If you mean the overall change in velocity, the shuttle ends up going something like 10 km/sec. But that's because it accelerates relatively slowly for a long time.

Well, I am talking about maximal velocity

Here's another couple of "believe it or not" factoids:

An atom can exist in more than one place at once. The largest collection of atoms that has exhibited this property ("single particle interference"), is up in the hundreds of atoms.

You can observe, or count atoms without interacting with them ("interaction" meaning the classical method of receiving or sending photons), because of quantum superposition. They call it "interaction-free measurement".

If you observe the space "around" an entangled atomic state, it stays coherent, until it's actually measured - the measurement appears to give the entangled state a real, observable value, as if observing it makes quantum information real. That's called the "quantum Zeno effect".

mmm.. the third i have covered

Right.
Well, I'll go have another beer.

Get one for me ;)