"The greatest scientists are artists as well" - Albert Einstein, (Calaprice, 2000, 245)
Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14th, 1879.
Albert played the violin and the piano - it was his passion.
In 1905 he produced 4 research papers including E=MC2
In 1915 he completed the 'General Theory of Relativity' and in 1921 He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Einstein didn't produce his science based on science alone. He had strong feelings for art and music which not many people realise and this has made me view Einstein in a new light rather than a plain old scientist wearing a white lab coat and glasses. Einstein used intuition and inspiration.
He mainly used music for his inspiration. This is a genius level of creativity. The pure concept that thinking can be done with body and mind.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge!" (Calaprice, 2000, 22, 287, 10)
"If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic then it is science. If its communicated through forms whose constructions are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognised intuitively, then it is Art." (Calaprice, 2000, 271)
He uses images to solve his problems and found words later (Pais, 1982)
This makes me question, Could music have created the connection between time and space?
Einstein said Neil Bohr's work on the atom was "the highest form of musicality in the realm of thought" (Schilpp, 1979)
If we didn't have creativity, there would be math without music, science without imagery and knowledge without imagination!
How can we imagine and use initiative thought through words alone?
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