爱因斯坦(Albert Einsein)于1879年3月14日诞生于德国西部巴伐利亚州的一座中等城市乌尔姆(Urm)。次年,他的家搬到德国南部的政治和文化中心慕尼黑。他的父亲赫尔曼·爱因斯坦不太成功地开设了一家电化学小工厂,而他的母亲成功地给爱因斯坦灌输了对音乐的爱好。爱因斯坦很晚才学会说话,而他长大以后,又说话很少,他的相对论著作发表时,很多人认为只是一份提纲,但对于他本人而言,一切都表达得清楚了。这是他的风格:深邃、简明。他很早就表现出对数学和物理学的爱好。由于读了通俗的科学书籍,他相信《圣经》里的很多故事不可能是真实的,他抛弃了任何宗教信仰,从此以后,他对任何权威都抱有怀疑的态度。十七岁的爱因斯坦考入了瑞士苏黎世的联邦综合性工业大学,毕业后随即陷入失业的境地,但是爱因斯坦在他一位朋友和老同学的父亲帮助下在伯尔尼的专利局找到了一份工作,不久以后结婚,有了两个儿子。 Albert Einsein was born on March 14, 1879, in Urm, a medium-sized city in western Bavaria. The following year, his family moved to Munich, a political and cultural center in southern Germany. His father, Hermann Einstein, had been unsuccessful in opening a small electrochemical factory, and his mother successfully instilled a love for music in Einstein. Einstein learned to speak very late, and when he grew up, he spoke very little again. Many of his treatises were considered an outline at the time of his publication of his theory of relativity, but everything was clear to himself. This is his style: deep, concise. He has long shown interest in mathematics and physics. Since reading popular science books, he believes many of the stories in the Bible can not be real. He abandoned any religious belief and from then on he was skeptical of any authority. Einstein, a 17-year-old student, was admitted to the federal polytechnic university in Zurich, Switzerland and immediately fell into unemployment after his graduation, but Einstein found the office in Bern with the help of his friend and old school father A job, soon after marriage, with two sons.