Einstein
Outside the Box
Imagine all the things one encounters during everyday life. Try to also imagine being a person who cannot stand not knowing how those things work. This was the kind of unique person that Albert Einstein was. His obsession with how things worked began when his father, Hermann Einstein, gave him a compass. The fact that the magnetic needle behaved as if influenced by some hidden force field, rather than through the more familiar mechanical method involving touch or contact, produced a sense of wonder that motivated him throughout his life (Isaacson 13). Einstein’s different way of thinking is one explanation for his vast knowledge. Albert Einstein’s accomplishments during his lifetime have greatly influenced today’s science world.
Albert Einstein had a normal childhood for the most part. He was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, with younger sister named Maria. When Einstein met his baby sister for the first time he actually thought she was a toy and, “Yes but where are the wheels?” (Isaacson 11). Alberts father Hermann Einstein, was a businessman with a knack for math and whose job required him and his family to move frequently. Since Hermann was a businessman, Albert’s parents were considered middle-class. When Einstein was a baby, his mother realized his head was fatter than most babies and had many weird angles. In addition to an odd shaped head, Einstein did not begin to talk until he was around two years old, he waited until he was able to form full sentences and not just words. His sister has said on many occasionas that at a very young age he would stop to answer or think taking long pauses, many people believed that he was pausing to form the sentence while she says he paused to “Know what he was talking about”. His parents had no choice but to believe that their son was mentally slow. “My parents were so worried,” he later recalled, “that they consulted a doctor,” (Isaacson 8).
Determined by what the average person knows about
Imagine all the things one encounters during everyday life. Try to also imagine being a person who cannot stand not knowing how those things work. This was the kind of unique person that Albert Einstein was. His obsession with how things worked began when his father, Hermann Einstein, gave him a compass. The fact that the magnetic needle behaved as if influenced by some hidden force field, rather than through the more familiar mechanical method involving touch or contact, produced a sense of wonder that motivated him throughout his life (Isaacson 13). Einstein’s different way of thinking is one explanation for his vast knowledge. Albert Einstein’s accomplishments during his lifetime have greatly influenced today’s science world.
Albert Einstein had a normal childhood for the most part. He was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, with younger sister named Maria. When Einstein met his baby sister for the first time he actually thought she was a toy and, “Yes but where are the wheels?” (Isaacson 11). Alberts father Hermann Einstein, was a businessman with a knack for math and whose job required him and his family to move frequently. Since Hermann was a businessman, Albert’s parents were considered middle-class. When Einstein was a baby, his mother realized his head was fatter than most babies and had many weird angles. In addition to an odd shaped head, Einstein did not begin to talk until he was around two years old, he waited until he was able to form full sentences and not just words. His sister has said on many occasionas that at a very young age he would stop to answer or think taking long pauses, many people believed that he was pausing to form the sentence while she says he paused to “Know what he was talking about”. His parents had no choice but to believe that their son was mentally slow. “My parents were so worried,” he later recalled, “that they consulted a doctor,” (Isaacson 8).
Determined by what the average person knows about