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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

... iv 'Sugar Beet Culture,' a farm play. 'Th' Familiar Lies iv Li Hung Chang' is expicted to do well in th' provinces an' Hostetter's Almanac has all dates filled, I undherstand th' bible'll be r-ready f'r th' stage undher th'direction iv Einstein an' Opperman befure th' first iv th' year. Some changes has been niciss'ry f'r to adapt it to stage purposes, I see be th' pa-apers. Th' authors has become convinced that Adam an' Eve must be carrid through th' whole play, so they have considerably lessened th' time between th' creation ...
— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne

... had Solomon's tiny eyes burrowed under a shaggy brow which, added to an Einstein-like shock of white hair, gave him the appearance of a professor on sabbatical. Eyes closed, Solomon was fondling favorite memories, when as a lad he repaired steam tractors and followed wheat across central plains of the United States. ...
— Solomon's Orbit • William Carroll

... not to let anybody look at it. He said he'd statuefy me if I did. He said nobody would understand it anyway. He said he might show it to Mr. Einstein, but ...
— The Aggravation of Elmer • Robert Andrew Arthur

... "You recognize Dr. Einstein, of course," said Baker. "This is a photograph of him at work in his laboratory at the Institute ...
— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones

... time, and the commonest form of it was one of these fevers, outraged nature's frenzied rise against the ever denser swarms of enemies from without which the slums sent to attack her. Susan ran across the hall and roused Clara, who would watch while she went for a doctor. "You'd better get Einstein in ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... senior partner in Browne, Saxe and Einstein—on the 'phone, and said: "Just see and tell me, will you, what is the 'bill defining the power of sundry commissions'—the bill ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips



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