EINSTEIN WAS A PLAGIARIST!!!

“One of the greatest myths of the 20th century is Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein is held up as a rare genius who drastically changed the field of theoretical physics. As such, he is made an idol to young people and his very name has become synonymous with genius. The truth, however, is very different. The reality is that Einstein contributed nothing original to the field of quantum mechanics or any other science, but on the contrary he stole the ideas of other men and the media made him a hero. When we actually examine the life of Albert Einstein, we find that his only brilliance lies in his ability to plagiarize and steal other people's ideas, passing them off as his own.

Einstein's education, or lack thereof, is an important part of this story. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of Einstein's early education that he "showed little scholastic ability." It also says that at the age of 15, "with poor grades in history, geography, and languages, he left school with no diploma." Einstein himself wrote in a school paper of his "lack of imagination and practical ability." In 1895, Einstein failed a simple entrance exam to an engineering school in Zurich. This exam consisted mainly of mathematical problems, and Einstein showed himself to be mathematically inept in this exam. He then entered a lesser school hoping to use it as a stepping stone to the engineering school he could not get into, but after graduating in 1900, he still could not get a position at the engineering school. Unable to go to the school as he had wanted, he got a job (with the help of a friend) at the patent office in Bern. He was to be a technical expert third class, which meant that he was too incompetent for a higher position. Even after publishing his so-called groundbreaking papers of 1905 and after working in the patent office for six years, he was only elevated to a second class standing. Remember, the work he was doing at the patent office, for which he was only rated third class, was not quantum mechanics or theoretical physics, but was reviewing technical documents for patents of every day things; yet he was barely qualified.

He would work at the patent office until 1909, all the while continuously trying to get a position at a university, but without success. All of these facts are true, but now the myth begins. Supposedly, while working a full time job, without the aid of university colleagues, a staff of graduate students, a laboratory, or any of the things normally associated with an academic setting, Einstein in his spare time wrote four ground-breaking essays in the field of theoretical physics and quantum mechanics that were published in 1905. Many people have recognized the impossibility of such a feat, including Einstein himself, and therefore Einstein has led people to believe that many of these ideas came to him in his sleep, out of the blue, because indeed that is the only logical explanation of how someone admittedly inept could have written such documents at the age of 26 without any real education. However, a simpler explanation exists: HE STOLE THE IDEAS AND PLAGIARIZED THE PAPERS!”

“Nice try.

Eintein himself admitted that his work on relativity and quantum mechanics was based on theories and discoveries of others. He picked up where others left off or stalled and carried the work forward. He never claimed any 'sudden inspiration' or groudbreaking discoveries, just putting together existing theories and observations in a new way.”

“How much crack do you smoke a day?Becuase it looks like you need to slow down...:)”

“Good point gordon.”

“And so is Marvin Gardens!”

“I ment that for MG not for gordon......:)”

“Marvin, you know no geniuses, do you? You probably even think yourself one. They are often on the verge of some truly remarkable breakthrough when some teacher says "Albert. ALBERT, are you paying attention?" It must be very frustrating to have to deal with regular folk.”

“Is it just me, or is there some irony involved when MG accuses Einstein of being a plagiarist?”

“It's not you.....”

“help me out here, cause i am very simple minded....
is writing an essay or presenting a theory in your own words that is based on previously proven truths considered plagiarism?
i am not sure, but does becoming conscious or realizing basic truths about natural laws of the universe really require degrees and high test scores in quantum physics?
i dont imagine that einsteins mind was any higher than anyone else's.....human brains are all made of the same atoms and electrons and protons...he probably did spend a lot of time "out-of-the-blue" or meditating or daydreaming...expanding his consciousness, dreaming, sleeping....he alluded to this to some degree when he wrote
"The scientists religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."a.einstein
(i only have that quote at hand..because i have it posted in my lab)....and so, i just had to put my two thoughts worth less than 2 cents in on this thread while "killing time" here at work...oops and now it is overtime!
bye.”

“MarvinG.. Dude, really. Get a life. I mean it. You're a bigger pest than the black flys in Maine.”

“he's almost as bad as the ninjas.”

“He had really good hair.”

“Waa-hoo!”

“I thought Einstien was a Pliedian.”

“I hate to here this.

I guess I have to go shut down the nuclear plant now.

Lights out, everybody!”

“Rad - Marvin is way more worse than the ninjas. And even more worse than Spurrier leaving the Gators.”

“Einstein: Bible Is 'Primitive, Pretty Childish'
Tuesday , May 13, 2008

LONDON —

Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?

A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."

The letter, handwritten in German, is being sold by Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday and is expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000.

Einstein, who helped unravel the mysteries of the universe with his theory of relativity, expressed complex and arguably contradictory views on faith, perceiving a universe suffused with spirituality while rejecting organized religion.

The letter up for sale, written to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954, suggests his views on religion did not mellow with age.

In it, Einstein said that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."

"For me," he added, "the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."

Addressing the idea that the Jews are God's chosen people, Einstein wrote that "the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

Bloomsbury spokesman Richard Caton said the auction house was "100 percent certain" of the letter's authenticity. It is being offered at auction for the first time, by a private vendor.

John Brooke, emeritus professor of science and religion at Oxford University, said the letter lends weight to the notion that "Einstein was not a conventional theist" — although he was not an atheist, either.

"Like many great scientists of the past, he is rather quirky about religion, and not always consistent from one period to another," Brooke said.

Born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1879, Einstein said he went through a devout phase as a child before beginning to question conventional religion at the age of 12.

In later life, he expressed a sense of wonder at the universe and its mysteries — what he called a "cosmic religious feeling" — and famously said: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

But, he also said: "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."

Brooke said Einstein believed that "there is some kind of intelligence working its way through nature. But it is certainly not a conventional Christian or Judaic religious view."

Einstein's most famous legacy is the special theory of relativity, which makes the point that a large amount of energy could be released from a tiny amount of matter, as expressed in the equation E

MC2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared). The theory changed the face of physics, allowing scientists to make predictions about space and paving the way for nuclear power and the atomic bomb.

Einstein's musings on science, war, peace and God helped make him world famous, and his scientific legacy prompted Time magazine to name him its Person of the 20th Century.
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“Interesting that they didn't quote his qoute about God not playing dice.”