The German theoretical physicist, author of the theory of relativity, left behind a legacy of powerful quotations that remain ...

Ever quoted a famous line, only to find out the person never actually said it? It turns out that a lot of well-known quotes ...

At the start of the academic year, Rector Petra De Sutter gave a speech containing fabricated quotes from well-known thinkers ...

Late in the movie "Shadowlands," the C.S. Lewis character describes the role that books can play in real life.

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The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

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Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 set off an extraordinary and ethically fraught afterlife for his brain, secretly removed by a hospital pathologist and kept for decades. Intended as a scientific quest, ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Albert Einstein took deliberate steps to control what would happen to his body after death. He asked that it be cremated, and that his ashes be scattered in secret, to avoid shrines, relics or ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?