Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

7 Social Hacks For Manipulating People

1. Whenever someone is angry and confrontational, stand next to them instead of in front of them. You won’t appear as so much of a threat, and they eventually calm down.

2. Open with “I need your help.” People don’t like the guilt of not helping someone out. When asking for a favor from someone, begin your request by saying “I need your help.” It greatly increases your chances of getting that favor done. 

3. Rephrase what the other person says and repeat it back to them. This makes them think you’re listening and really interested in what they’re saying. It makes them feel validated. Obviously, you don’t want to overdo this.

4. If you want someone to agree with you, nod while you talk.This gets the other person to nod too, and they begin to subconsciously think they agree with you.

5. If someone doesn’t like you, ask to borrow a pencil. It is a small enough favor that they won’t say no, and it gets them to like you more.

6. Fold your arms to determine interest. If someone is observing you, they will likely mimic you. Fold your arms, and see if they do it, too.

7. Repeat a person’s name many times during a conversation. It helps you remember it, and makes them like you more.

11 Emerging Scientific Fields That Everyone Should Know About

There was a time when science could be broken down into neat-and-tidy disciplines —   straightforward things like biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. But as science advances, these fields are becoming increasingly specialized and interdisciplinary, leading to entirely new avenues of inquiry. Here are 11 emerging scientific fields you should know about.


1. Neuroparasitology

If you know about Toxoplasma gondii — the cat-spawned parasite that alters both rodent and human behavior — then you know about the work of neuroparasitologists. The fact that these eerie parasites now have their very own scientific discipline devoted to them shows just how prevalent they are in nature.

These parasites typically alter host behavior as a part of their reproductive strategy (often by being consumed and excreted by a third party). A good example is Euhaplorchis californiensis, which causes fish to shimmy and jump so wading birds will grab and eat them. Hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, eventually need to leave their hosts to continue their life cycle. Rather than leave peacefully, however, they release a cocktail of chemicals that makes the grasshoppers commit suicide by leaping into water. The hairworms then swim away from their drowning hosts. Image: Fox.

 

 

2. Quantum Biology

This is a freaky one — but then again, anything with the word "quantum" in it is bound to be weird. Physicists have known about quantum effects for well over a hundred years, where particles defy our sensibilities by disappearing from one place and reappearing in other, or by being in two places at once. But these effects are not relegated to arcane lab experiments. As scientists are increasingly suspecting, quantum mechanics may also apply to biological processes.

Perhaps the best example is photosynthesis — a remarkably efficient system in which plants (and some bacteria) build the molecules they need by using energy from sunlight. It turns out that photosynthesis may in fact rely on the "superposition" phenomenon, where little packets of energy explore all possible paths, and then settle on the most efficient one. It's also possible that avian navigation, DNA mutations (via quantum tunnelling), and even our sense of smell, relies on quantum effects. Though it's a highly speculative and controversial field, its practitioners look to the day when insights gleaned may result in new drugs and biomimetic systems (with biomemetics being another emergent scientific field, where biological systems and structures are used to create new materials and machines). Image: qubit-ulm.com.

 

3. Exo-meteorology

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A storm on Saturn so huge that it wrapped around the entire planet

Cassini has captured something NASA scientists have never seen before: A massive thunder-and-lightning storm that wrapped itself around Saturn Like exo-oceanographers and exo-geologists, exo-meteorologists are interested in studying natural processes which occur on planets other than Earth. Now that astronomers are able to peer more closely into the inner-workings of nearby planets and moons, they're increasingly able to track atmospheric conditions and weather patterns. Jupiter and Saturn, with their impossibly large weather systems, are prime candidates for study. So is Mars, with it's regularly occurring dust storms. Even planets outside our solar system are being studied by exo-meteorologists. And interestingly, exo-meteorologists may eventually find signs of extraterrestrial life on an exoplanet by detecting organic signatures in atmospheres, or elevated carbon dioxide levels — a possible sign of an industrial-age civilization.

 

4. Nutrigenomics

Also known as nutritional genomics, this is the study of the complex interplay between food and genetic expression. Scientists working in this field seek to understand the role of genetic variation, dietary response, and the ways in which nutrients affect our genes. And indeed, food has a profound effect on our health — and it starts quite literally at the molecular level. Nutrigenomics works both ways; our genes influence our dietary preferences, and vice-versa. A key goal of nutrigeneticists is to establish personalized nutrition — matching what we eat with our own unique genetic constitutions

 

 

 

5. Cliodynamics

Coined by the University of Connecticut's Peter Turchin, cliodynamics is an interdisciplinary area of research that combines historical macrosociology, economic history (cliometrics), the mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the building and analysis of historical databases. It's basically Asimov's psychohistory come to life.

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Can “cliodynamics” help historians predict future unrest?

Unlike physicists and chemists, historians have been unable to formulate grand equations or immutable laws. The trends of history, it would seem, are … The name is a portmanteau of Clio, the muse of history, and dynamics, the study of changes over time. Simply put, it's an effort to quantify and describe the broad social forces of history, both to study the past, and as a potential way to predict the future. An example of cliodynamics was Turchin's recent paper forecasting social unrest.

 

 

 

6. Synthetic Biology

This is the big one, and it's the emerging world-changing scientific discipline that many of us are already familiar withScientists always say you can't understand something until you can create a model of it. This rule is the driving force behind the rise of… Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems. It also involves the redesign of existing biological systems for any number of useful purposes. Craig Venter, a leader in this field, shook the biology community in 2008 by announcing that he had manufactured the entire genome of a bacterium by piecing together its chemical components. Two years later his team created "synthetic life" — DNA created digitally, and then printed and inserted into a living bacterium. And last year, synbio scientists created the first complete computational model of an actual organism.

Okay, so imagine this: It's about twenty years from now and a serious pandemic hits. You're rightly terrified of leaving your house for… Looking ahead, synthetic biologists will sequence and analyze genomes to create custom-designed bootable organisms and  and biological robots that can produce chemicals from scratch, like biofuels. There's also the potential for pollution devouring cyborg bacteria, and the downloading and printing of recently updated vaccines during a pandemic. The possibilities are almost endless.

7. Recombinant Memetics

This one's quite speculative, and it's technically speaking still in the proto-science phase. But it'll only be a matter of time before scientists get a better handle on the human noosphere (the collective body of all human information) and how the proliferation of information within it impacts upon virtually all aspects of human life.

Similar to recombinant DNA (in which different genetic sequences are brought together to create something new), recombinant memetics is the study of how memes (ideas that spread from person to person) can be adjusted and merged with other memes and memeplexes (a cohesive collection of memes, like a religion) for beneficial or ‘socially therapeutic' purposes (such as combating the spread of radical and violent ideologies). This is similar to the idea of 'memetic engineering' — which philosopher Daniel Dennett suggested could be used to maintain cultural health. Or what DARPA is currently doing via their ‘narrative control' program.

 

 

 

 

8. Computational Social Science

Similar to cliodynamics, computational social science is the rigorous investigation of social phenomenon and trends over timeThe use of computers and related information processing technologies is central to this discipline. Quite obviously, this field has only really been possible since the advent of computing, and most especially since the rise of the internet. Computational social scientists study the copious amounts of information left behind from emails, mobile phone calls, tweets, credit card purchases, Google searches, and on and on. It's a field of study that's attracting not just social scientists, but mathematicians and computer scientists as well. Examples of their work include studies into the structure of social networks and how information spreads across them, or how intimate relationships form on the Web. Image: Nature.

9. Cognitive Economics

Economics isn't typically associated with science, but that could change as the with traditional scientific disciplines. Not to be confused with behavioral economics (the study of our behaviors — what we do — in the context of economic decision making), cognitive economics is about how we think. Leigh Caldwell, who runs a blog dedicated to the field, puts it this way:

Cognitive economics (or finance)...looks at what is actually going on within the individual's mind when they make that choice. What is the internal structure of their decision-making, what are the influences on it, how does information enter the mind and how is it processed, what form do preferences take internally, and then ultimately how are all those processes expressed in our behaviour?

Looking at it another way, cognitive economics is to physics what behavioral economics is to engineering. To that end, cognitive economists begin their analysis at a lower, more reductionist level, and form microfounded models of how people make decisions to devise a model of large-scale economic behaviors. To help them with this, cognitive economists consider the related fields of cognitive science and computational economics, along with theories about rationality and decision making.

 

10. Organic Electronics

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For those would-be cyborgs who are squeamish about implanting awkward computer chips into their bodies, a doctoral student at Sweden's Linköping Normally, electronics are associated with inert and inorganic conductors and semiconductors, like copper and silicon. But a new branch of electronics is emerging that uses conductive polymers and conductive small molecules — both of which are carbon-based. It's a highly interdisciplinary field that involves the design, synthesis, and processing of functional organic and inorganic materials, along with the development of advanced micro- and nanofabrication techniques and circuit design. To be fair, it's not an entirely new field, as preliminary concepts and devices were first developed in the early 1970s. But it has only been recently that things have picked up, particularly on account of the nanotechnology revolution. Organic electronics introduces the potential for organic solar cells, self-assembling monolayers in functional electronic devices, and chemical circuits that could replace computer chips for human implantation (the cyborg of the future may very well be more organic than synthetic!). Image: AlphaGalileo Foundation.

11. Quantitative Biology

If you like both math and biology, this one's for you. Quantitative biology, as its name implies, is an effort to understand biological processes through the language of mathematics. But it also applies other quantitative methods, like physics and computer science. The University of Ottawa explains how it came about:

With the advances in biological instrumentation and techniques, and easy access to computing power, biology is generating large amounts of data at an increasing speed. Acquiring the data and making sense of it increasingly requires quantitative approaches. At the same time, coming from a physicist's or mathematician's point of view, biology has reached a state of maturity where theoretical models of biological mechanisms can be tested experimentally. This has led to the development of the broad field of quantitative biology.

 

 

 

 

 

7. Fahed Hariri

Age: 32

Fahed Hariri is the youngest son of late Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri. Fahed completed his graduation in Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture de Paris in 2004. Being a student, Fahd Hariri owned an interior design studio of his own in Paris, and also sold furniture to customers in Saudi Arabia. After his graduation in 2004 Fahd has grown his wealth and he is one of the wealthiest people in Lebanon as of 2013, alongside his elder brother Ayman Hariri. His other brothers Bahaa and Saad, as well as his sister Hind and mother Nazek, are also on the billionaires’ list. Fahed’s current net worth is around $1.35 billion.

6. Huiyan Yang

Age: 31

           

The first woman in this list is none other than Huiyan Yang; she is one of the wealthiest individuals in mainland China. Huiyan is the daughter of Yang Guogiang, who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997 and transferred 70 percent of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007. Her father is a self made billionaire and a founder of real estate developer Country Garden Holdings, a company which was worth $7.4 billion. Huiyan Yang got graduated from the Ohio State University in 2003. Her net worth is approximately $5.7 billion.

 

 

 

8. Sean Parker

Age: 33

 

Being an entrepreneur, Sean Parker is the co-founder of file-sharing computer service Napster and also the first President of Facebook. He is also a co-founder for Plaxo, Causes and Airtime. In 1999 along with his friend Shawn Fanning, he created and launched Napster and raised around $50,000. Many recording labels opposed him as well as there were countries that filed law suit against him. But still Napster is considered as the fastest growing business of all time. Sean has a net worth of $2 billion.

 

9. Marie Besnier Beauvalot

 

Age: 32

 

Another lady billionaire in this list is Marie Besnier Beauvalot. Along with her siblings named Emmanuel, 42, and Jean-Michel, 45, inherited Lactalis, a company which their grandfather found in 1930. Lactalis, the French dairy giant is the producer of popular Président brie among hundreds of other cheese, milk and yogurt brands. Once when Besneir family acquired a major stake in Italian market in 2011 that was the first time when fairly opaque financials came in to light. The total net worth of Marie Besnier is around $1.5 billion.

10.  Ayman Hariri

Age: 34

Apart from Fahd Hariri, Rafik Hariri’s second son Ayman Hariri is also featured in the list. Currently Ayman Hariri manages Saudi Oger, which is one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest constructions company, and also a prime source of the Hariri family fortunes. His total net-worth is approximately $1.35 billion.

Top 10 Youngest Billionaires In The World Under 40

Many faces make an appearance in the billionaire list every year. But it is surprising to see that the list also comprises young talents and these young billionaires are under 40 years old. Some in the list have inherited the wealth and status from their ancestors but some have achieved the same because of their hard work and dedication. Truly an achievement!

Here is the list of 10 billionaires in the world who found wealth at a very young age, reports Forbes.

                                                                                                                                                                      1. Dustin Moskovitz

            

Age: 28

Dustin Moskovitz is the youngest among others in this list of billionaires. He is an American internet entrepreneur and a co-founder of the social networking giant Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. In 2008, he decided to leave Facebook and then co-founded Asana along with Justin Rosenstein. Forbes, in 2011, declared Dustin Moskovitz as one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world and he was ranked based on his 7.6 percent share in his former company. His total net worth is around $3.8 billion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Eduardo Saverin

Age: 30

              

       Eduardo Luiz Saverin, a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor, was born in Sao Paulo to an affluent Jewish Brizallian Family. Saverin is one among the popular co-founder of Facebook. Currently he owns almost less than 5 percent shares of Facebook and his total net wealth is $2.2 million. He has also invested in some of the early-stage start-ups like Jumio and Qwiki.

 

3. Albert von Thurn und Taxis

Age: 29

 

Albert von Thurn und Taxis is the first billionaire who inherited billions at the young age of 18. He is the 12^th prince of Thurn und Taxis and a German aristocrat too. After his father’s death in 1990, several times he has been listed in the world’s youngest billionaires list and surprisingly he was just eight year old at that time.  Apart from his father, his mother was also a popular media figure. Currently this eligible bachelor has a net-worth of $1.5 billion. Being a racing car driver, Albert regularly goes for tour with a German auto-racing league

 

 

 

 

 

4. Scott Duncan

Age: 30

 

After Albert von Thurn und Taxis, it is Scott Duncan who inherited wealth and status after the death of his father Dan Duncan, who was the former richest man in Houston. Dan Duncan was an energy pipeline entrepreneur and the co-founder for the company called Enterprise Products Partners. Scott Duncan’s total net worth is around $5.1 billion and when the share price of Enterprise products rose he added another $1 billion to his fortune.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Mark Zuckerberg

Age: 28

Mark Zuckerberg is second in this list of the youngest billionaires. An internet entrepreneur and an American computer programmer, Zuckerberg has achieved a lot of fame for his invention of Face mash which is now popularly known as Facebook. When compared to other co-founders he is one best known co-founders of Facebook and currently he is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook. He has a total net worth of $15 billion and in 2010 he was named among the wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

 

 

 

Sony wants to turn your tablet into a giant camera

                                  Remember Sony's lens-type camera attachments for smartphones? Well, the company aims to do the same to its line of tablets with the launch of SPA-TA1, a clip-on attachment that gives the tablet serious photo-taking power.
The SPA-TA1 is not a camera or a lens in itself; it's just a clip-on attachment with several “arm” sizes that enables you to mount Sony's lens-type cams onto a tablet.
The actual cameras (though Sony's lens-type cams look like lenses, they're really full-blown cameras) are the same as before: the DSC-QX100 is a high zoom model that retails for $249, while the high-end DSC-QX10 costs $499                                           The SPA-TA1 will come in six arm sizes, accomodating for devices from 85-190mm in width. That pretty much covers all Sony phablets and tablets, from the Xperia Z Ultra to the Sony Vaio Tap 11.
According to Xperia Blog, the Sony SPA-TA1 will launch on Apr. 4 2014 in Japan at a suggested retail price of 3,675 Yen ($36).

India Now Emerges As Child Friendly Nation

 It is indeed great news for the Indians as the country has emerged as a nation that extends full co-operation towards the welfare for the children. According to The South Asian Report on the Child-friendliness of Governments, India has worked the most for establishing and facilitating legal and policy framework for children within the country.

India is closely followed by countries like Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The new survey also stated that Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka have scored high on factors like health, education and child protection outcomes including birth registration and child marriage.

“A gradual change is happening in South Asia, as governments are taking important steps to acknowledge and implement children’s human rights, often in collaboration with and influenced by a range of non-state actors,” said the report . It further stated that it is particularly effective in India and Bangladesh though the other governments have also taken some action.

 

                                                                                                                  The Report on the Child-friendliness of Governments is mainly carried out to find the efforts of the governments at fulfilling the obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The survey has been conducted by the South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children — a SAARC apex body.

End Of Patent War: Samsung And Google Sign Cross Licensing Deal

Electronics major Samsung and Google entered into a mutually beneficial cross licensing deal where both the parties will share all existing patents as well as the ones that will be acquired in the next ten years. This decade long partnership between Samsung Electronics and Google has set the preface for more such deals between corporations that are at loggerheads with each other. The details about patents and technologies covered in the pact were not disclosed. The terms and conditions remained a secret as well.

Deputy General Counsel for Patents at Google, Allen Lo said, “By working together on agreements like this, companies can reduce the potential for litigation and focus instead on innovation.” On similar lines, Dr. Seungho Ahn, the Head of Samsung’s Intellectual Property Center opined, “Samsung and Google are showing the rest of the industry that there is more to gain from cooperating than engaging in unnecessary patent disputes,” Josh Miller reports for CNET.

 

                                                                                                                         Samsung and Google’s partnership is long standing. They worked together for Samsung Galaxy Nexus smart phone in 2011. Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition runs on Android instead of the operating system that is developed by the manufacturer. Further, Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Note 3 were the first ones outside the Nexus series to run Android differently. However, Google’s Motorola mobility which manufactures hardware can give Samsung a run for its money in the future. There were reports of tension between the two multinationals but both seem to believe that there is more to gain in partnership, especially in the mobile sector. Chung Chang-won, an analyst at Nomura Financial Investment predicts that wearable PCs and self driven cars will be the future joint ventures, reports Fionna Agomuoh of International Business Times.

Per the advice of the U.S. court, Apple and Samsung are expected to hold negotiations by 19 February  to sort out similar patent infringement issues. So far, Apple has had the better of its counterpart in the proceedings. Currently the South Korean electronics giant owes the American multinational $930 million in damages. Next court hearing is on 31^st of March.