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Einstein   /ˈaɪnstaɪn/   Listen
Einstein

noun
1.
Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955).  Synonym: Albert Einstein.
2.
Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality.  Synonyms: brain, brainiac, genius, mastermind.  "He's smart but he's no Einstein"



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"Einstein" Quotes from Famous Books



... moment as a new age—the age of space and the atom—to follow the historic ages of stone, bronze, and iron. We may think of it in terms of theories, of succeeding from those of Copernicus to those of Newton and thence to Freud and now Einstein. We may think of our time as the time of exploiting the new fourth state of matter: plasma, or the ion. Or we may think of it in terms of revolutions, as passing from the industrial cycle of steam through the railroad-steel ...
— The Practical Values of Space Exploration • Committee on Science and Astronautics

... will hardly note so complete an abandonment of disillusion, weariness, and cynical despair as is written upon the blank faces all down the aisle. Even the will-power of a George Creel or a Will H. Hays would droop before this three-hour ordeal. Professor Einstein, who talks so delightfully of discarding Time and Space, might here reconsider his theories if he brooded, baking gradually upward, on the hot ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley



Words linked to "Einstein" :   intellect, intellectual, physicist, prodigy



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