-
There was a harmonious reality underlying the laws of the universe, Einstein felt, and the goal of science was to discover it.
NPR: Einstein: Relatively Speaking, a Complicated Life
-
"God doesn't play dice" with the universe, Einstein protested.
FORBES: INCOMPARABLE CARVER
-
After Hubble published his findings in 1929, he, Einstein, British astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter, all gathered at a special meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society and pondered how they could account for such developments based on static universe models that Einstein and de Sitter had derived with General Relativity.
FORBES: Why Hubble's Law ... Wasn't Really Hubble's
-
Einstein hoped this all-encompassing theory would explain how the universe worked.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Michio Kaku: Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow
-
Einstein is famously thought to have said that the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.
FORBES: The Most Dangerous Lie Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves
-
Sadly, nations generally discover the truth of Albert Einstein's dictum that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe not through the happy accumulation of wealth but through the agonizing enslavement of debt.
WSJ: Phil Gramm and Steve McMillin: The Debt Problem Hasn't Vanished
-
At the time Einstein proposed his Theory of General Relativity, it had not been observationally established that the universe was in a state of expansion.
FORBES: Dark Energy Camera Could Reshape Einstein Cosmology