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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



... into the picture when one remembers Dr. Einstein's unified field theory, concerning the relationship ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... said Holden discouragedly, "a way to send messages faster than light. It's a detour around Einstein's stuff—not denying it, but evading it. Right now it takes not quite two seconds for a message to go from the moon to Earth. That's at the speed of light. Dabney has proof—we'll see it—that he can cut that down some ninety-five per cent. Only it can't be used ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... the Fifteenth Century; Flower's The Century of Sir Thomas More; The Household of Sir Thomas More, in King's Classics; Green's Town Life in the Fifteenth Century; Field's Introduction to the Study of the Renaissance; Einstein's The Italian Renaissance in England; Seebohm's The Oxford ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... to human progress and human enlightenment—men like Gutenberg, Copernicus, Newton, Leibnitz, Watts, Franklin, Mendeleieff, Pasteur, Sklodowska-Curie, Edison, Steinmetz, Loeb, Dewey, Keyser, Whitehead, Russell, Poincare, William Benjamin Smith, Gibbs, Einstein, and many others—consume no more bread than the simplest of their fellow mortals. Indeed such men are often in want. How many a genius has perished inarticulate because unable to stand the strain ...
— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... said sternly, "you've got to draw the line somewhere. I suppose Einstein is a good fellow and all that, but you've been running around with him a lot. You've even brought him here several times. Of course, you can have anybody in your room you want, but we don't want any Jews around the house. I don't see why you had to pick him ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks


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