Albert Einstein born March 14, 1879

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On this date in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

He happens to be one of my personal "hero's"...so I'm calling his birthday to the attention of the forum participants.

One of my favorite pictures of me is one my wife took of me in Madame Taussaud's in The City.

me-and-einstein.png
 
Frank Apisa said:
On this date in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

He happens to be one of my personal "hero's"...so I'm calling his birthday to the attention of the forum participants.

One of my favorite pictures of me is one my wife took of me in Madame Taussaud's in The City.

me-and-einstein.png
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You're a handsome guy, Frank. I figured you must be.
 
Frank Apisa said:
On this date in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

He happens to be one of my personal "hero's"...so I'm calling his birthday to the attention of the forum participants.

One of my favorite pictures of me is one my wife took of me in Madame Taussaud's in The City.

me-and-einstein.png
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You're a handsome guy, Frank. I figured you must be.
 
Frank Apisa said:
On this date in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

He happens to be one of my personal "hero's"...so I'm calling his birthday to the attention of the forum participants.

One of my favorite pictures of me is one my wife took of me in Madame Taussaud's in The City.

me-and-einstein.png
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Love that photo; looks as though you're deep in a discussion about quantum physics. Or maybe just which pipe tobacco is least offensive. lol

And what Kudzu said too.
 
Ok Frank here is a present from the man himself. A riddle he thought up, try to solve it.

"Einstein's riddle
The situation
There are 5 houses in five different colors.
In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
The question is: Who owns the fish?
Hints
the Brit lives in the red house
the Swede keeps dogs as pets
the Dane drinks tea
the green house is on the left of the white house
the green house's owner drinks coffee
the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
the man living in the center house drinks milk
the Norwegian lives in the first house
the man who smokes blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
the owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
the German smokes Prince
the Norwegian lives next to the blue house
the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water
Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said that 98% of the world could not solve it."
https://udel.edu/~os/riddle.html

Yes the answer is linked.
 
Grumpy said:
Ok Frank here is a present from the man himself. A riddle he thought up, try to solve it.

"Einstein's riddle
The situation
There are 5 houses in five different colors.
In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
The question is: Who owns the fish?
Hints
the Brit lives in the red house
the Swede keeps dogs as pets
the Dane drinks tea
the green house is on the left of the white house
the green house's owner drinks coffee
the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
the man living in the center house drinks milk
the Norwegian lives in the first house
the man who smokes blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
the owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
the German smokes Prince
the Norwegian lives next to the blue house
the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water
Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said that 98% of the world could not solve it."
https://udel.edu/~os/riddle.html

Yes the answer is linked.
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I have done many of these kinds of puzzles in the past...and noticed this one earlier this morning. I may try it, but the kind of stick-to-it that I used to have for these things is not with me so much any more.

I've been a big fan of Raymond Smullyan...who designed MANY of these kinds of puzzles...and some even more complex. Pick up one of his several books... "What is the name of this book?" is a good one.

I'll look at the Einstein one later today.
 
Frank Apisa said:
I have done many of these kinds of puzzles in the past...and noticed this one earlier this morning. I may try it, but the kind of stick-to-it that I used to have for these things is not with me so much any more.

I've been a big fan of Raymond Smullyan...who designed MANY of these kinds of puzzles...and some even more complex. Pick up one of his several books... "What is the name of this book?" is a good one.

I'll look at the Einstein one later today.
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I don't have the patience to work out long drawn out riddles anymore. Today crosswords are my choice.
 
Frank Apisa said:
On this date in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

He happens to be one of my personal "hero's"...so I'm calling his birthday to the attention of the forum participants.

One of my favorite pictures of me is one my wife took of me in Madame Taussaud's in The City.

me-and-einstein.png
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Prove that's you.
 
Grumpy said:
I don't have the patience to work out long drawn out riddles anymore. Today crosswords are my choice.
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I know what ya mean.

I've been into Sudoku's a lot. I get mine from Killer Sudoku on-line. Do a Killer every night.

I use to do the Times puzzles...but the paper is too expensive for me anymore.
 
Frank Apisa said:
I know what ya mean.

I've been into Sudoku's a lot. I get mine from Killer Sudoku on-line. Do a Killer every night.

I use to do the Times puzzles...but the paper is too expensive for me anymore.
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I used to do the Boston Globe crossword. But I found a crossword app that has hard, med, and easy puzzles depending on ones mood.
 
Frank Apisa said:
On this date in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

He happens to be one of my personal "hero's"...so I'm calling his birthday to the attention of the forum participants.
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A renaissance man, a gifted independent thinker, someone who lived outside the bounds of convention - and like the rest of us, a flawed human being. Cold and even callous to his wives and children, but with an extraordinary empathy for humanity at large.

A democratic socialist.
An advocate for racial equality.
A pacifist.
An advocate for nuclear non-proliferation.
A liberal humanist.
A leftist politically.

Einstein was a different kind of scientist. A person who studied philosophy and history of science, and refused to conform to the social norms of a typical science education. Einstein always said it was his unconventional background, his keen interest in philosophy and history that made him a better thinker - a different kind of thinker. A remarkable young man, with a social conscience that led him to renounce his German citizenship at the tender age of 16, rejecting German militarism and conformity, and embracing the bohemian culture of Swiss Zurich.

To me, Einstein is a lesson to the modern scientist to not get wound up to tightly into a tightly focused subspecialty of science. Broadening the mind, and embracing the full range of human knowledge and experience, is a way to cultivate creative and independent thinking.

The human race owes a debt to Einstein, not only for his ground-breaking physics, but for his humanitarianism, his liberal social advocacy, his deep insights into philosophy and theology.
 
Cypress said:
A renaissance man, a gifted independent thinker, someone who lived outside the bounds of convention - and like the rest of us, a flawed human being. Cold and even callous to his wives and children, but with an extraordinary empathy for humanity at large.

A democratic socialist.
An advocate for racial equality.
A pacifist.
An advocate for nuclear non-proliferation.
A liberal humanist.
A leftist politically.

Einstein was a different kind of scientist. A person who studied philosophy and history of science, and refused to conform to the social norms of a typical science education. Einstein always said it was his unconventional background, his keen interest in philosophy and history that made him a better thinker - a different kind of thinker. A remarkable young man, with a social conscience that led him to renounce his German citizenship at the tender age of 16, rejecting German militarism and conformity, and embracing the bohemian culture of Swiss Zurich.

To me, Einstein is a lesson to the modern scientist to not get wound up to tightly into a tightly focused subspecialty of science. Broadening the mind, and embracing the full range of human knowledge and experience, is a way to cultivate creative and independent thinking.

The human race owes a debt to Einstein, not only for his ground-breaking physics, but for his humanitarianism, his liberal social advocacy, his deep insights into philosophy and theology.
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein
 
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