The True Sign of Intelligence is Not Knowledge but Imagination Brilliant, unconventional and exceptionally imaginative, Albert Einstein was one of the most noteworthy scientists of his generation. With a vast love for knowledge and an unwillingness to settle for normality, Einstein was able to revolutionize the world of mathematics, physics and radiology during the 20th century.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in the small town of Ulm, Germany but grew up in Munich. As a child, Einstein was incredibly quiet and viewed as an introvert. He did not speak a word until the age of three. However, his love and curiosity for science, nature and mathematics was evident at an extremely young age after he taught himself Euclidean geometry (2014). Einstein excelled in school but struggled with social normality as well as the strict educational system in Munich. He began to read on his own about science, philosophy and mathematics, which fueled his curiosity and allowed his scientific ingenuity to flourish. Albert Einstein made
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At a very young age, Einstein noted that geometry along with the discovery of a compass sparked his interest in mathematics and magnetic fields. He also showed great interest in philosophies of nature and how the world around him seemed to work. He published his first scholarly paper at the age of sixteen on the movement of a light beam and its comparison to a wave (Grimm, French, & Pak, 2014). Einstein was incredibly gifted with his studies in school, however he did not enjoy the conventional form of education. He learned more through reading on his own and from exploration rather than from a didactic classroom setting. A few years after Einstein finally graduated from secondary school, he acquired a position at the patent office. He used this opportunity to experiment with electrical signals and test electromagnetic theories