Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. When he was Four and sick in bed, Albert Einstein's father gave him a magnetic compass. Albert practiced turning the compass every which way, soon becoming fascinated by the new toy. No matter which way he turned it, the needle would always point in the same direction, and much in the way Einstein's genius and fascination with nature pointed him toward a life of scientific discovery. …showed first 75 words of 511 total…

…showed last 75 words of 511 total…the most, a mathematical expression of nature. To his friend Linus Pauling, another famous scientist, Einstein said: "I made one mistake in my life when I signed that letter to President Roosevelt advocating that the atomic bomb should be built. But perhaps I can be forgiven because we all felt that there was a high probability that the Germans were working on this problem and would use the atomic bomb to become the master race