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Runa
March 26th, 2007 at
5:20 am
This story reminds me the Frankenstein Junior movie, with this funny sketch of the “ab-something” brain.
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loorah
March 26th, 2007 at
9:51 am
It’s the movie “Young Frankenstein”, directed by Mel Brooks. Igor read the jar as “Abby Normal”, not “Abnormal”.
I love that movie, and this article also reminded me of that as well. -
Skoof
March 26th, 2007 at
11:04 am
Missing from this list is probably the most obvious not so well known fact: that Einstein’s first wife Mileva Maric was herself a scientist, Einstein’s school fellow in Switzerlant, inf fact. The strange fate of Mileva Maric in fact puts a very doubious light on Einstein’s character, although much of it - from both sides - is debatable and has been considered only lately. At a glance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Maric
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Ali
March 26th, 2007 at
11:56 am
Wow. Einstein was a player! :p
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jen
March 26th, 2007 at
3:24 pm
He was also a complete a$$. I read a letter somewhere that he wrote to his wife– he basically said, “When I’m at home, don’t look at me or talk to me, and don’t complain if I mess around with other women.”
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Garageband
March 26th, 2007 at
4:26 pm
@ Runa
By Frankenstein Junior, I think you mean Yong Frankenstein
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bernie
March 26th, 2007 at
4:30 pm
Re: He was also a complete a$$. I read a letter somewhere that he wrote to his wife– he basically said, “When I’m at home, don’t look at me or talk to me, and don’t complain if I mess around with other women.â€
Let’s all admit that every husband would sign on to this if they could get away with it. I certainly would if I didn’t love my wife so much.
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James
March 26th, 2007 at
5:06 pm
That’s a pretty strange comment:
“Let’s all admit that every husband would sign on to this if they could get away with it. I certainly would if I didn’t love my wife so much.”
is fidelity an individualistic thing? Say you for some reason stopped loving your wife, does that mean she deserves your fidelity any less? Would you cheat on her then if you were sure not to get caught? How is it one can feel, like einstein obviously did, that the only thing important is yourself. or in your case “what they don’t know won’t hurt them”. Well I think that statement is fallacious.
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rob
March 26th, 2007 at
5:24 pm
Maric was his student? Really?
He was a professor back then?She was present while heo laid the groundwork for a lot of his theories but as time goes on she is now moved from his assistant to his ’student’.
It seems logical that even thought the ideas might have come from Einstein, the mathematics came from ……a woman.
I guess when you have a myth to keep up, anybody else who could have contributed will have been erased from memory.
But on a human level, the man had all the charm of a jackal. If his image wasnt so carefully crafted, he should have been the poster child for every women’s group of the 20th century on how men can be total a=holes.
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live tv online
March 26th, 2007 at
5:56 pm
I believe he helped built the bomb, but later repented it when realizing the magnitude of the bomb!
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audiophilic
March 26th, 2007 at
6:20 pm
“Much too fat, much too fat!”
Weird. That is a lyric from the tune “Animal Zoo” on one of my all time favorite albums, Spirit’s “Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus”.
“Oh no, somethin’ went wrong when you’re much too fat and a little too long.”
The end of the tune segues into the next with a weird voice repeating “much too fat, much too fat…”
I just had to listen to that song when I read the quote from Einstein’s grandma.
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subcorpus
March 26th, 2007 at
6:30 pm
he married his counsin …?
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funex
March 26th, 2007 at
7:46 pm
“he married his counsin …?”
Only when he couldn’t marry her daughter. So he married the mom to get close to the daughter? eww.
I’m betting one of the other university sections he failed was ETHICS.
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marcel
March 26th, 2007 at
8:54 pm
She was his second cousin, not his first cousin. So they probably were not related genetically
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bishopKING
March 26th, 2007 at
9:13 pm
This lowers my respect for the man
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Buzz
March 26th, 2007 at
9:13 pm
Also..
denied scientific evidence for quantum mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein#Bohr_v._Einstein -
DIC Celebrity Gossip
March 26th, 2007 at
9:35 pm
Hopefully, they’ll do the same thing to Paris Hilton’s brain so people will now why someone as privileged as her became as trashy as she is. Wait, does she even have one?
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undiggnified
March 26th, 2007 at
10:09 pm
Awesome facts!
I always thought Einstein was part of the Manhattan project!!!
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Steve
March 26th, 2007 at
10:39 pm
What about the fact that he never wore socks?
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Josh
March 26th, 2007 at
11:02 pm
Einstein was a vegetarian too!
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Dan
March 26th, 2007 at
11:41 pm
wow…thats weird…as a child i was having speech difficulty but stops until i was 12 years old…am i qualified as Einstein syndrome? Too bad i ‘m not math genius..hohoh
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Dan
March 26th, 2007 at
11:43 pm
wow…thats weird…as a child i was having speech difficulty but it stops until i was 12 years old… Too bad i ‘m not a math genius..hohoh
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einstein's love child
March 27th, 2007 at
2:30 am
Einstein is my dad and is always with me in my heart!
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Donkey
March 27th, 2007 at
3:47 am
Einstein taught Kung Fu to Bruce Lee.
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Mr Know-It-All
March 27th, 2007 at
10:43 am
Einstein was clearly autistic (Asperger). The first 8 facts above are consistent with that diagnosis. He was obsessed with abstract math and physics, didn’t pay much attention to the rest of his life, and felt very little empathy for or connection with others. This disconnection and single-minded obsession can lead to academic brilliance.
He was also an accomplished musician.
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Shypys
March 27th, 2007 at
2:24 pm
Now i see. When i was young(10-12), i thought i was cleverer than all of the others(dont we all?), but I’m rather a people-person, with an unforgiving conscience. Now i see why I show spurts of extreme laziness and procrastination every now and then. =p
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Amruthraj Belaldavar
March 28th, 2007 at
2:26 am
Einstein was supposed to be pretty bad at Spellings English words!
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Kristen Shaffer
March 29th, 2007 at
8:12 am
Did ya’ll know that he was jewish geez isnt that somethin ya didnt expect to find out!!!!!(no affenct to Jewish people!!
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Kristen Shaffer
March 29th, 2007 at
8:17 am
he is pretty kool and thatz y im researchin him cuz i have to do a project on him but anywho…i seriously cant believe that he married his cousin…….EWWWWWWW!!!…..thatz just weird!!!
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kaveh
April 3rd, 2007 at
2:05 am
Hello
really i dont find a legendery man like grate Einstein in whole of history he was grate he is and he will be
i really love him !
kaveh From Iran -
sr
April 7th, 2007 at
5:09 am
Hi
I have been reading a lot of anti Einstein articles all over the internet.I dont think they are right,but one thing is bothering me about uniform motion.
Einstein said,that the time of the uniformly moving observer will slow from the point of view of the resting observer.
If I consider ,the moving observer at rest then the previously resting observer will be in motion,so his time will slow.(Ignoring acceleration of course).Can both observers be right?
This is the argument of one of his critics named Herbert Dingle.Does anybody know the answer for this question? -
Dee Thaking
April 18th, 2007 at
11:30 am
Do you know Who said: “I don’t know Einstein’s theories, but I know Einstein” Answer will greatly appreciated.
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steve
April 20th, 2007 at
8:23 am
I think he was very disgusting man because he married his cousi.. thats effed up…
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Motorcycle Guy
April 22nd, 2007 at
8:33 am
Keeping his brain like that seems sorta creepy lol.
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Ski
April 26th, 2007 at
2:51 pm
Apparently, Albert Einstein didn’t have a belly button. Can someone out there verify if that’s true or false?
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fred lapides
April 28th, 2007 at
6:05 am
His first wife was a stuent along with him but she twice failed to pass exams to graduate.Many people have and do marry cousins, though it is looked upon as odd in the U.S. His 2nd wife’s daughter suggested that they might marry, not the other way around, and she probably did this to make her boyfriend a bit jealous. Einstein rejected the idea. His odd contract with his wife was made so he might stay legally married because of his love for his sons, but he also wanted his privacy for his work.The truly odd item: he made a deal with his wife to settle up with her that he expected someday to win the Nobel prize and he would give the earnings from it to her. He did and she got it.
He has been “blamed” for making modernity, making things relative, but that is different totally from the idea of relativity in physics. He as a non-believer who later in life accepted his tribal connections–being Jewish, but never acceted the biblical andother beliefs of the relgion. This became important with the rise of anti-semitismn in Germany, and jealous scientists called relativity Jewish science! Thus Einstein sorked hard along with Weizman for making possible a homeland in Palestine. He saw what had been taking place in Germany and was early on aware of the anti-semitisnm in that country and the authoritary dominated system of Germany. He hated authority, conformity, and believed in socialism as a moderating force between total authority and capitalism because the ordinary person too deserved a rightful place within society and, he thought, capitalism made too wide a gap between the Haves and Have Nots. An oddity: shortly after developing his notions of the atom and relativity,m a young physica person suggested that it might be possible to use his findings to develop a powerful weapon…this of course he worked on later (A Bomb) to use against the world oppressive Germany, though it is true that earlier he had been a pacifist. -
jimmy
May 9th, 2007 at
5:12 pm
hes weird
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Talulah Bancroft
May 31st, 2007 at
2:55 am
Elsa’s and Albert’s mothers were sisters, their fathers were cousins. So technically their both first and second cousins. What a confusing family tree they must have. Great man. Wonderful quotes from him. My fav being:
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
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Danny
June 2nd, 2007 at
3:35 am
#35, Ski: Please tell me you’re kidding about Einstein not having a belly button. You do know what belly buttons are, right?
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Rod
June 5th, 2007 at
1:07 am
Regarding all the personal failings with his family, Einstien himself often admitted that he was no genius when it came to personal relations. Many observers in fact thought he had some sort of deficit in this area, despite his charm and benevolence.
His genius and charm do, however, make these failings a bit of a surprise. We expect that he had EVERYTHING figured out. Guess not.
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cr
June 13th, 2007 at
12:43 am
Too all those who say they have “lost respect” or find Einstein disgusting, look back in your own family tree and odds are your ancestors were committing the same “disgusting” acts as Einstein, and none of them probably contributed a fraction of the good and intelligence that Einstein brought to this world. When you respect someone for something so unrelated to his personal life how can you hold his actions against him and his contributions?
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Parisa
June 14th, 2007 at
12:30 pm
You can be a great scientist…you can reveal all the mysteries of the science…but what happens to morality? I think he was a selfish and unpleasant man!!
Life is not about being intelligent and genius, it is about being good, it is about helping people and respecting them which is apparently missing from Einstein’s life!!! -
Mr Pickle
June 28th, 2007 at
4:20 pm
“In 1939, alarmed by the rise of Nazi Germany, physicist Leó Szilárd [wiki] convinced Einstein to write a letter to president Franklin Delano Roosevelt warning that Nazi Germany might be conducting research into developing an atomic bomb and urging the United States to develop its own.”
Einstein lied, Japanese died! Pacifist indeed! The Nazis had no WMDs (at least not stockpiled) and the Allies started WWII by interfering in a central European war that it had no business being part of. America provoked Pearl Harbor by interfering in pacific trade. In fact it is entirely possible that the US faked the attack to give justification for a war of imperialism. This was probably done in coordination with Israel since it is known for a fact that no Israeli citizens showed up for work at the Pearl Harbor naval base on the day of the attack.
At least, that is what I have learned from the world view of today’s peace activists. Man! Life is so pretty when you just let go of your senses.
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thetruthiswayoutthere
July 8th, 2007 at
1:07 am
Pickle - you’re very close to the truth, man. The fact is, we did not actually succeed in building the atom bomb (like we never landed on the moon, man). It was faked film. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first victims of global warming. That really sucks, dude. Wait - maybe that Mount Vesuvius place was first - we’ll never know though because Karl Rove destroyed the evidence man…
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Kathleen
July 10th, 2007 at
2:23 pm
I just read this great article on Walter Issacson’s recent speech @ the Aspen Ideas festival about Albert Einstein. It was really interesting. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
http://aspen.plumtv.com/stories/man_behind_theory_relativity
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psamathe
July 17th, 2007 at
12:42 am
Whats with all the morons posting here?
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Philip
July 24th, 2007 at
8:19 pm
Einstein was a giant.
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Mikey_T
August 10th, 2007 at
11:41 pm
Boy, I guess if you’re jealous of someone’s accomplishments you can really tear them down to make yourself feel better. Someone above wrote that intelligence wasn’t as important as being good. First of all - “Good” is relative! Second of all - think about that statement the next time you use your cell phone, computer, or other myriad technological advances. All were devised by BRILLIANT men, who were flawed in many ways like we all are. By the way - Roosevelt married his cousin too. Einstein was Genius! Not “a genius” - just “genius” His moral “failings” are inconsequential compared to the positive impact he had on the scientific world, and human kind as a whole. Anyone who feels otherwise is unrealistic, and probably has more skeletons in their closet than Einstein ever had.
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Holly
August 12th, 2007 at
9:27 am
to kristen shaffer: i REALLY hope the paper you have to write doesn’t look like the comment you left on here. you will fail miserably. here’s a tip- stop texting and using your instant messager. it’s screwing up your english. and tell your friends too, because they probably read your comment with flying colors. and pay attention in english and grammar. you actually USE that in life. tHanKxzz!!!1!11!
about the article: interesting stuff about the man. he was definitely one of the oddest people in our world’s history. terribly genius, and a moron at the same time. fascinating.
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August 18th, 2007 at
6:26 pm
i think you’re confusing “interesting” with “mundane”
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ryo
August 23rd, 2007 at
10:01 pm
Einstein is my idol. I also want to follow his footstep but i didn’t get into university!!! LOL
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connie christopher
August 28th, 2007 at
11:52 am
What the hell are all of you judgemental (probably good christian) people talking about? Nothing in life is ever as one dimensional as you’re asserting. Einstien’s accomplishments are so monumental as to eclipse anything else he did or did not do in his life.
We are all products of our time also and he lived in a very different time with very different mores’ and considerations. He was a giant. -
neil
September 5th, 2007 at
6:35 am
You forgot to mention that he was a shameless plagiarist, including as it concerns the works he is most esteemed for. Had the Germans won WWII, we’d be worshipping the true (Italian and ethnic German) developers of his theories…
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Suhas
September 10th, 2007 at
2:43 am
Einstein was known for his scientific achievements and not for his personal life. Let us respect him for his invaluable contribution to science and not for his personal life.
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onur
September 10th, 2007 at
7:10 am
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kiki
September 12th, 2007 at
4:40 pm
player player!!!
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Jim
September 16th, 2007 at
2:29 pm
No response from Intertel? I’m not surprised. Mensa?…
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Sonya
September 16th, 2007 at
3:50 pm
Yeah, a play boy for real. I never knew anything about his character- other than being outstanding in the math & science subject areas. I still respect his contribution to these areas- he didn’t do anything that many other people haven’t done or continue to do.
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Blob
October 4th, 2007 at
12:01 pm
#43…
you are a freakin idiot. The Nazi’s were researching how to build atomic bombs. They didnt have any build yet. The U.S. did not fake the attack of Pearl Harbor. You are discrediting the names of the brave souls who died because of the attack. What gives you the right to spread such lies? -
joe
October 21st, 2007 at
11:18 am
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thats what she said
October 30th, 2007 at
7:37 pm
Gonna have to go with blob here and say that you are truly an idiot neil and the Americans that died as well as the thousands of others would not appreciate you discrediting there names because your a fan of Germanic and Italian scientists.
Besides Einstein didn’t build the freakin bomb he suggested to FDR that they go into nuclear research as that is what Germany was doing.
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Adam
November 8th, 2007 at
5:40 pm
Einstein is a great man. But what we’re all forgetting is everyone has their faults.
Also, werent his Eyes taken out too? i remember reading that in a text somewhere ( I think in a Horrible science book??)
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AMIT CHOUDHARY
November 20th, 2007 at
12:19 am
no doubt that einstein’s work is precious for us &guide our way in every field of life yet his social life was not so good to be remembered. Stry to acquire at his good habits and his bad habits for others
YOURS AMIT -
Justin VerBerg
December 6th, 2007 at
7:05 pm
Very intriguing information. Was Einstein originally from Switzerland?
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Peter
December 17th, 2007 at
11:38 am
Einsteins actions are understandable to any one who understands the nature of the marriage contract. Since the beginning of the concept, marriage has always and remains, a business deal.
Love, for millennia was not a factor in these contracts any fool should realise that a loving relationship requires no contract. Einstein, I think we would all agree was no fool. He just renegotiated his contract.
In any contract, as long as all parties concerned agree to the terms, regardless of the terms of anyone Else’s contract, is fair. Einstein found that the contract as written by others did not suit his predispositions and interfered with his work.
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og luke
January 1st, 2008 at
3:33 pm
im searchings him =[ not that fun!
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POP
January 21st, 2008 at
11:09 pm
yup,einstein iz da best and da player for an old man!!!!
KEEP ON WRITTING PEOPLZ! LLLLLOOOOOLLLLLL!:}
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xeniya
February 11th, 2008 at
8:42 pm
Mark Twain also married his cousin.. so what? i think it’s normal… i have five cousins and none of the related to me genetically, so i can marry one of them..
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dookiecheese
February 29th, 2008 at
2:52 pm
Comment 44
thetruthiswayoutthereYou are either wicked funny or a complete ignoramus. Global warming for one thing will take a monumental amount of years to account for degrees of increase globally. Considering we have only started contributing to air pollution(Approxiametly 100 years)and that volcanoes emit more air pollution then we do its only natural, not to say we should continue, no part of our present day society screams natural is good. Also, since when has ice been the natural form of water on earth? Never, during earths history we have had a few ice ages and they always slowly end, this is no different; the reminants of our last ice age combined with continental shift account for our above sea level bodies of ice. The only reason this is a bad thing is because we haven’t adapted to such a climate as a whole and we are morons and built costal cities. The US succesfully created the atom bomb and probably did land on the moon eventually, but wtf does carl rove (howevor you spell his name) have to do with evidence of either of these things. Are you saying he was born into politics when he was an infant and spread atom bomb propaganda???
now about Einstein
whos to say whether or not he plagiarized any of his works, his so called greatest achievements occured when he worked in a patent office. -
dookiecheese
February 29th, 2008 at
2:53 pm
OMG IM COMMENT 69 SWEET
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roly deacon
March 10th, 2008 at
10:48 pm
you really dont like him do you?
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Mike Rizzio
March 15th, 2008 at
4:51 am
Do I believe that Einstein was touched by God? YES
Do I believe that he was called to be a prophet for the truth, in modern times? YES
Do I beleive that like Jonah he failed to live up to what God was asking him to do? YES
A look at his shameful proposed contract to Mileva and the “holy relic” (his brain) lead one to ponder that if COVENANT is critical to God’s eternal relationship to mankind and if Ein Stein (ONE STONE) was asked serve his Maker “the Old One” as a living witness of faith, hope and love so as to properly gift to the world his “brain power,” than he clearly failed both God and Man. Like us all he fell victim to his Achilles heal and we have still to come to terms with the fallout of this brokenness—the media hype that surrounded him in life won’t let us, for it persists to this very day.
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Joe P. Fermented-cucumberhead
March 18th, 2008 at
8:27 pm
we could have a debate about this!
wtf it is weird that he married hiz cuzin just cuz he cudnt marry her daughter
thats sad and gross.u know there are a lot of brilliant ppl out there they are just not recognized like einstein was
haha his brain was pickled in a jar
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rogee
April 23rd, 2008 at
10:32 am
holly, just stfu.
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Jamie
May 6th, 2008 at
7:59 am
Some of this stuff can NOT be true because i read on ask.com that he did not have speaking problems and that he could spaek at the age of 5 years old.
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frankie
May 9th, 2008 at
6:00 pm
watch relic: einsteins brain ,,, documentary about the search for his brain by japanese professor,,, it is fantastic ,,,,,
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May 15th, 2008 at
1:02 am
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i have to do a project about u how amesome!!!!!!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):’ -
vandyjake
May 19th, 2008 at
4:41 pm
Some people on this website have too much time on their hands…
Albert Einstein rocks
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Winston Smith
May 24th, 2008 at
12:23 am
Wow, I always thought Einstein was a weird creep! This makes the natural skeptic in me wonder if the rumours of his plaigerism and actual idiocy could possibly be true. His physiognimy certainly persuades me of this.
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Achal
May 28th, 2008 at
1:05 am
I LOVE EINSTEIN
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dramagrl
July 1st, 2008 at
2:15 pm
u need to stop being so hard on him, yes he was weird, goofy, odd, and a little bit messed up, he was dissed his whole life for thinking outside of the box, but he diod, something, made a difference, changed the world, i’d like to see some of you do that. and you are all STILL talking about him for being different, just goes to show how wrong and messed up you all are. einstien rox deal with it!
other people that u diss(prob.): edgar allen peo, shakespeare, mozart, beethoven. people that got somewhere, and just about all of them were suicidal or depressed because of people like you. you should be ashamed.
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sameer404040
August 5th, 2008 at
3:15 am
love n respect him for what he had given to world rather hate him.
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