7. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Everybody is a genius
What do you daydream about when you’re pretending to work at your desk? Where to go for Friday drinks, what your next eBay purchase will be or maybe that cute new brunette in advertising? While working in a patent office, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) would daydream about travelling on a light wave. In 1905, while still working full-time at the patent office, he published his paper on special relativity which totally changed how we view the universe. He was 26. He didn’t do any experiments to deduce this stuff either – he just thought this shit up! Out of thin air! Einstein was one of the greatest thinkers in history, but even he couldn’t figure everything out. He spent much of his later life trying to find a unified field theory, which would reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics, without success. Goes to show even the smartest people can come up against a brick wall. Nevertheless, he was still named Person of the Century by Time magazine, and rightly so.
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I told my wife I was a genius and she said “great then you can come up with another way to take out the garbage mr genius.”
love your comics
just would like to point out that in this one it should be “its”. And this quote is not proven to be from Einstein, even though it’s pretty cool. all the best.
AH – I can’t believe I didn’t see that! – I’ve fixed the typo – thank you
I like your work, but It’d be nice if you sourced all of the quotes you use.
Unsourced quotes on the internet are kind of a pet peeve of mine. I’d say close to 99% of the quotes you find referenced on the internet are unsourced, and because of that pretty well near 50% of those are probably misattributed as well. As far as I can tell there’s no solid evidence that Einstein ever actually said or wrote this. Although it’s not as bad as the painfully snarky “Two things are infinite…” quote that always gets attributed to him despite not sounding anything like him and honestly just insulting the man’s intelligence.
Sorry, rant over, keep up the good work, but how about more sourced quotes.
You make a good point – do u have any good sources to check the validity of quotes?
Wikiquotes can be a great resource.
“The problem with quotes on the Internet is, 99% of them are not even true.”
– Abraham Lincoln.
i think this is my favorite… so, so true…
please make these available to buy soon!! i want to hang them in my cafe!
How do you color your comics? They look beautiful
P.S. i love you
btw its lazer not laser
btw it’s laser not lazer.
Search and you will find.
I’ll eventually post an extensive tutorial on how I create my comics … when I find the time!
Great work….. very inspiring, and amusing as well. In just 15 minutes on your website I’ve become a fan of your work.
Thanks for this stuff…..Keep it up.
Glad u found me SidK
Hey Gav~
you might find this one helpful: http://brianli.com/eBooks/Yale%20Book%20of%20Quotations.pdf … or in physical form: http://www.amazon.com/Yale-Book-Quotations-Fred-Shapiro/dp/0300107986 !
Cheers!
Tim ^__^
This site is incredible, well done!
Man, I somehow found your “NEIL deGRASSE TYSON: The most astounding fact” art work and instantly loved it. Now have been looking at all the others and loving every single one of them. So far the Bruce Lee ones are my faves only because I too am a fan of The Man.
In any case, because I also like reading the little bios you put below the images, I just wanted to point out a typo in this one: “Goes to show even even the smartest” — ‘even even’ twice.
All the best and keep up the amazing work!
Thanks for letting me know Alejandro.
To this day I fear that on his death bed, he figured it all out, but the nurse did not speak german.
You’re right, he probably did
Given that he spent the last 22 years of his life in the United States, his English must have been pretty good by the time he was on his deathbed.
LIE!
He’s not saing this.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
Came here by way of tumblr. Love your site!
The fish at the bottom is a wonderful touch!!
love this!
Not to take anything away from Einstein’s brilliance, but the story that he figured out Relativity all in his mind is a canard that just keeps on being perpetuated by bad high school textbooks. (I grew up with that story myself.)
The truth is that the classic view of the laws of physics was in deep trouble because of the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment, and physicists all over the world were racking their brains trying to explain it. H. A. Lorentz, whom Einstein greatly admired, came up with an answer that proved to be incorrect, but which did yield the Lorentz Transform, which wasn’t. Einstein was the first to figure out the correct answer, but he did not do it in an intellectual vacuum. Someone from the 18th century or earlier couldn’t have solved this problem, because he would have had no way of knowing that the problem even existed; we have Michelson and Morley to thank for that.
(Love this site BTW, just discovered it and now reading through it in the dead of night! My comment is not meant as a snark, just to add some perspective.)
Hm, I don’t know how this ended up showing up as a response to Diana, I wanted it to be at the bottom but I must have mis-clicked. Sorry about that!
Hey,
Recently a friend of mine shared your art and I’ve become a fan ever since! Keep up the great work !
I just love the look on the fish’s face! It seems to me as if he’s saying, “Shit man, you’re expecting me to do WHAT now? Are you stupid?”
This is one of my favorite ones of yours! I asked for 4 or 5 of these for my birthday! I really hope that i get them because they are so amazing! Great work and please keep it up!
Love the comic mate, really gets across the central idea of a great saying by a great man. The only issue I have is with what you said AFTER the comic. Albert Einstein was undoubtedly a great man, but he did not come up with the theory of relativity out of nowhere. It was based on intense past research done by others and discussion with other physicists in his spare time. His real accomplishment was for being pretty much the only one to succeffully make sense out of all these sources and set in place the modern theory of relativity, in his spare time no less!
Love the Doctor Seuss looking fish.