Urban Myth or not? Was Einstein a bad student and even failed a class?
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He did not do great in school - they now say he was likely dyslexic...do a search on him and I'm sure you'll turn up quite a few biographies...
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Some of Einstein's Ideas are already being rewritten. So, quoting him as an end-all to the question of anti-gravity really doesn't mean a whole lot. Newton's laws were rewritten after his time, as science learned more about itself. It's not unreasonable to assume that the same will occur in reguards to this taboo topic too. I remember seeing a video of a man who has come close, with a spinning top device. By itself, it weighs far too much to lift by hand. But, once it is set spinning, it could be lifted by a child. :)\n\nCurrent science is not an absolute. :) Don't give up hope!
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Maybe you have had enough sleep. Einstein averaged 3 hours a sleep a night ! I don't always sleep well, but sooner or later my body catches me up on needed sleep.
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They would think very highly of him. They also might be jealous that he is smarter than the two of them combined. We all thought that Einstein was the smartest man who ever lived just because he discovered E=MC2. But, Rory Emerald really discovered that. Also, he even discovered the basics of relativity. Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher. He is considered the greatest philosopher of all time. He has written books on physics, logic, and poetry. He actually got these ideas from Rory Emerald. Rory Emerald was once called Plato, and gave these writings to Aristole, and he got no credit whatsoever.
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I once heard that an A was the best grade, but I personally never saw one. So maybe that was just a myth/urban legend...
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Pretty much all of the questions in science & mathematics and History seem like they're from students, I think. The questions they write sound contrived, like they were written in a textbook or on a sheet of paper.
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hey, a lot of people are really smart...\n\nArthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" etc... and he was one of the greatest detective before.\n\nAlbert Einstein discovered a lot of theories without using any experiment tools and stuff, so wouldn't anyone think it's neat?\n\nThe Couple Pierre and Marie Curie contributed a lot in the periodic table, so they could be big time geniuses themselves...\n\nBill Gates never graduated, but indeed he made what we're using right now, correct?\n\nwho knows? maybe someone might keep on dominating that role, and hopefully, he/she would be of much use to the whole world...
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The correct quote is\n\n"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from mediocre minds." \n\nIt was Einstein
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With the way people argue -- just flip a coin.\n\nI for one am a big fan of science.  If I wanted to fall asleep or read a lot of little fairytales, I'd read the bible.\n\nAnd just because Einstein believed that there was design by intelligence, doesn't mean it's correct.  Like all men, he was fallible too.
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Einstein and Newton didn't use their brains to the maximum extent.  They just used a lot more of their brains than most people.  Also, an IQ test can be used to test ones "brilliancy", but only if it is a good one.
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Einstein is a good example of your dilemma - he was originally thought to be an "idiot" when he was going to school.\n\nHe also stated that his success was composed of 10% inspiration and 90% PERSPIRATION.\n\nThe only limits to what you can achieve are the limits you impose upon yourself - Good Luck -\n\nREMEMBER: - 90% PERSPIRATION!!!
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In a poll of the scientists at London's Royal Society, Einstein came in second to Sir Isaac Newton. So based, on their opinion, yes there is another scientiest greater than Einstein. It's hard to know if there might have been a national bias to the vote though, given that Newton was English and Einstein was American. \n\nHere are results and comments from another poll:\nhttp://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2005/11/newton_vs_einst.html
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einsteins was a fool by his own standards and a simple translator realistically. All he did was interpret ancient knowledge already know by egyptians and summarians. He tried to understand them then ended up receiving credit for inventing them. Just as the Pythagoras' Theorem was decoded by a guy named Pythagreus or (somthing like that), a Greek i believe. But it was developed in Egypt just that he was the first the translate it. Most these so called great minds are mental migets.
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I know Darsee, a prominent psychologist and professor at Harvard, falsified most of his data.  Someone notified the NIMH and his data was analyzed and concluded to be falsified.  He lost his job and his reputation.
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Yes Mathematics is the universal lansuage and Einstein is considered a genius not because he was good at maths but because he was a great scientist. Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have..
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I think Isaac Newton might have been as good, considering the limitations of his own time. Just remember he had to develop a new whole math to support his theories! (calculus) Then I dunno, but today Stephen Hawking? Have you read a brief history of time and the universe in a nutshell? I dunno, really, Einstein was GREAT!
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Since themata are strongly related to philosophy and religion, and since these begin forming early in one's life, Einstein's childhood must be examined for events that shaped his thema. Einstein was a peculiar child; he was disproportionately gifted with a visual inclination at the expense of his verbal skills. He did not learn to talk until the age of three, but instead favored nonverbal activities that involved the use of his visual abilities. For example, he loved to build large card houses (AIP, 1996). Also, he was fascinated by a geometry book that he acquired when he was twelve. He would manipulate mental models of the theorems to gain an understanding of the concepts, rather than write out a formal proof: "Only something which did not... seem to be 'evident' appeared to me to be in need of any proof at all" (Holton, 1996, 386).\n\nAdditionally, he was raised in a Jewish household and acquired a strong religious faith in his early years. At the age of twelve, this faith ended in a crisis about which he says: "Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment-an attitude that has never again left me..." (Lesikar, 1996).\n\nEinstein was raised in a militaristic school that stressed memorization and verbal learning. He did so poorly here that he was not accepted at a noted university, the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich, so instead he went to the Kanton Schule at Aarau. This school followed the philosophy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who believed that "conceptual thinking is built on visual learning" (Holton, 1996, 389). Einstein later explained his visual nature: "The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be 'voluntarily' reproduced and combined" (Holton, 1996, 386-387).