Albert Einstein: Imagination and Relativity

I was born in Germany in 1879, and as a child, I was quiet and misunderstood.

Some believed I was slow. But my mind never stopped asking questions. I didn’t learn by

memorizing. I learned by imagining. I imagined chasing a beam of light and wondering what

time would do. School didn’t fit me, but curiosity stayed with me.

As a young man, I worked in a patent office. To others, it looked like failure.

To me, it was freedom. In that quiet place, I developed ideas that changed science

forever. I discovered that time is not absolute, that space can bend, and that energy

and matter are one. E equals m c squared. At first, people doubted me. Later,