Albert Einstein: The Genius Who Begged the World Not to Worship Him — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00Albert Einstein. This man's brain was
2. 0:02stolen the moment he died and his whole
3. 0:04life he had begged people not to worship
4. 0:06him. Here's the part of Albert
5. 0:07Einstein's story they never put on the
6. 0:09poster. After finishing university,
7. 0:11Einstein could not find work. He applied
8. 0:14to professor after professor and every
9. 0:16single one turned him down. Around that
10. 0:19same time he fell in love with a fellow
11. 0:21student named Mileva. She became
12. 0:23pregnant and in secret, far from both
13. 0:26their families, she gave birth to a
14. 0:28daughter named Lieserl. To this day
15. 0:30nobody knows what happened to that
16. 0:32little girl. There is no death record,
17. 0:34no adoption record, just silence. Some
18. 0:37historians believe Einstein may never
19. 0:39have even met his own daughter. To
20. 0:40survive, he took a quiet, unglamorous
21. 0:43job examining patents at a Swiss office.
22. 0:46Nobody there knew what he was really
23. 0:48doing in his spare hours. Alone, after
24. 0:51work, he was quietly rewriting the laws
25. 0:53of the universe. In 1905, this unknown
26. 0:5626-year-old clerk published four papers
27. 0:59that would eventually change science
28. 1:00forever, including one small equation
29. 1:03the whole world would come to know, E =
30. 1:06mc². And still, almost nobody noticed.
31. 1:10Not yet. Fame did not fix his life. In
32. 1:13some ways, it broke it further. His
33. 1:15marriage fell apart and his son, Eduard,
34. 1:18was later diagnosed with schizophrenia
35. 1:20and spent most of his life locked away
36. 1:22in an institution. After Einstein fled
37. 1:24Germany, he never saw that son again. He
38. 1:27was, at times, the most celebrated mind
39. 1:30on the planet and at the very same time
40. 1:32a father who lost his own child to
41. 1:34illness and distance. In 1919, a solar
42. 1:37eclipse proved his theory correct and
43. 1:39overnight he became the most famous
44. 1:41scientist alive. But in Germany, being
45. 1:44Jewish and outspoken made him a target.
46. 1:47The Nazis burned his books, raided his
47. 1:49home, put an actual bounty on his head.
48. 1:52He fled his own country and never set
49. 1:54foot in it again. In America, fearing
50. 1:57what Germany might build first, he
51. 1:59signed a letter that helped start the
52. 2:01atomic bomb program. Then Hiroshima
53. 2:03happened. He later called it the one
54. 2:05great mistake of his life. The very
55. 2:07weapon he helped warn about became the
56. 2:09thing he spent his final years fighting
57. 2:11to stop. So he turned toward people
58. 2:13instead. He sheltered a black singer
59. 2:16turned away from hotels because of her
60. 2:18race. He stood beside a friend the
61. 2:20government had branded dangerous. He was
62. 2:22even offered the presidency of Israel
63. 2:24and quietly turned it down. In 1955,
64. 2:27dying from an aneurysm, he refused
65. 2:30surgery to prolong his life. He asked
66. 2:32for no funeral, no grave, no monument,
67. 2:35just to be remembered quietly. Hours
68. 2:37after he died, a doctor stole his brain
69. 2:39anyway. Without permission, pieces of it
70. 2:42sat in jars for decades. The man who
71. 2:44begged the world not to worship him
72. 2:46became one of the most worshipped minds
73. 2:48in history regardless. If you've ever
74. 2:50felt like the world only wanted one part
75. 2:52of who you are, tell me in the comments.