Index4INDEX Card 327: Albert Einstein 4

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

-- Albert Einstein

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Mistakes are usually made when trying new things. If they are repeated enough times, they will be done perfectly or at least as expected.

Trying new things is also how we grow as people. If we end up doing something new with no mistakes, that is an unexpected surprise to be welcomed. However, the normal thing is for mistakes to be made from which we learn.

If we don't try anything new, we don't grow and develop. We stay as-is, and over time we stagnate. Nothing good happens under conditions of stagnation.

Some (More) Information about Albert Einstein

In the mid 1890s Max Talmud introduced the young Albert Einstein to thw 1867-68 children's science series by Aaron Bernstein titled {Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbucher} (Popular Books on Physical Science). Bernstein imagined himseld riding alongside the electrical signal which traveled though a telegraph wire. This question would prompt Einstein to ask himself the question which would dominate his scientific career: What would a beam of light look like if he could run alongside it? It was at this point in his life when Einstein would write his first scientific paper, "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields".

Einstein's father went through repeated business failures, and this disrupted his education. When his father's company failed to win a contract to electrify the city of Munich, Germany, his father moved to Milan, Italy, to work with a relative. Young Albert was expected to finish his education at a boarding house where he was left by his father.

The combination of being alone and dread of facing obligatory military duty on turning 16 caused Einstein to run away from the boarding house six months after he arrived. His parents were surprised to see him, but they also realized their predicament with Einstein being both a dropout from school and a draft dodger, two things which also made him unemployable as he was.

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