Blunders Quote by George Gamow

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever…

— George Gamow

“Instead, in what he later described as his greatest blunder, he changed his equations by adding an extra term that allowed our Universe to…

— Max Tegmark

“The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a ‘cosmological constant’ to his equation for the expansion of the universe but then retracted it, may…

— Walter Isaacson

“Without a doubt, Einstein’s greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Instead, this time he made what he called a “slight modification” to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from imploding, Einstein…

— Walter Isaacson

“Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general theory of…

— Walter Isaacson

“This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to be one…

— Walter Isaacson

“But Einstein refused to be mathematics’ pawn. He bucked the equations in favor of his intuition about how the cosmos should be, his deep-seated…

— Brian Greene

Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the…

— Adam Riess

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a…

— Ron Howard

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's…

— Walther Bothe

“When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than…

— Walter Isaacson