Why was Albert Einstein so intelligent?

Question

Was he not human in physical or mental sense? Or was he just like us?

Answer 1

Actually he was just like us , the only difference in body structure being the large no. of folds in his brain (i.e. gyri and sulci ).
But also he made use of his brain to the fullest ability....
Most of us use our brain to only 10% capacity.
If we work hard and are devoted even we can become Einsteins

Answer 2

( 1.)
He solved the Lorentz-Fritzgerald's contraction on seeing the Michealson-Morley's null result. Without lifting a finger in experiment. This is the solution that gives us E=mc2 ,, which was preposterous to say that energy is matter thru the currency of c2. During his days , this was not proven. And from here we get the quantum continuum compliant with the Newtonian Reality. (machanics).

( 2.)
He said light bends. ( I have forgotten it's details.) (Anyway Hawkings says worse , that light hangs around , doing nothing , going nowhere , at the Event Horizon. This interprted by an American as Maximum Entropy. )(Ilya Prigogine more or less pegged entropy(and chaos mathematics) into legitimate Science. For his Heat Death of the Universe. Our understanding of the possibility of black holes needed the possibility of light to bend.

( 3.)
The quantum theory we study in school is the Bohr's quantum theory. One that has never been observed in the laboratory or in Nature. The Einstein's quantum theory is highly unbelievable , but is so good , it has been proven predictive of the then unknowns (multiple times).

So , Humanity lives with 2(TWO) quantum theories ,, which cannot be re-conciled to one quantum fact !!

And Einstein should never have known all those things he did. He is not intelligent. He is a genius.

He is not like us. His brain is unnaturally wide. Some say he has the widest brain in history. The autopsy was not done well and nations claimed pieces of his brain , thereafter.

Answer 3

I believe that he was like us, with the difference that he was using his brain!!
He also didn't take everything for granted.

I also think that timing is very important!
Scientists during time concluded to theories and discoveries that needed at the time to be discovered!

Do you know that Einstein hadn't been a good student in University and he had only passed 5-6 classes in the first 3 years? Or that he wasn't good in mathematics and he had asked help from a friend (to solve together the equations, the idea was totally his) to conclude to E=mc^2?
That makes him look human!!
Of course that doesn't mean that he wasn't brilliant and very passionate about physics!

Answer 4

Although it is perhaps controversial, some believe that Albert Einstein was dyslexic. Dyslexics often (have to) use a highly visual thought process and that may have helped him to "see" the big picture. The rest was organizing math to fill in the blanks. Known dyslexics (so I have read) include General Patton who needed the help of his mother to read his lessons but could easily see the big picture on a battlefield. Also Tom Cruise who has to hear the movie scripts rather than read them. Also Robert Goulet (the singer) who needed Q-cards for a Naked Gun movie script. Intelligence comes in many flavors. Dyslexics are cursed and gifted at the same time. They are amongst the world's slowest and fastest readers depending on training methods used.

Answer 5

Albert Einstein died at 1:15 am on April 18, 1955 at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey. Later that day, Princeton Hospital pathologist Dr. Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy on Einstein and removed Einstein's brain. Harvey cut the brain into 240 pieces. He was very protective of the brain and kept it jars at his house. Over the years, Harvey gave several pieces of the brain to different researchers including Dr. Marian Diamond (UC Berkeley), Dr. Britt Anderson (University of Alabama) and Dr. Sandra Witelson (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario). Harvey moved around the country and he always brought the brain with him. Eventually, Harvey moved back to New Jersey. In 1996, Harvey brought the remaining pieces of Einstein's brain to Dr. Elliot Krauss, chief pathologist at Princeton Hospital.

Answer 6

Ithink the answer by Shadowmyru is a very realistic Assesment of Albert Einstein

Answer 7

apparently he was working as a patent clerk and had to catch a train down a two mile long straight road with a clock tower at the end...wondering if the train treavelled at the speed of light whether he would be late again for work as the clock would appear not to change...he had to tell his boss that he couldn't find his hairbrush so he was late again..(true story..sort of) i'm pretty sure he was doing maths at nightschool to figure out relativity and stuff...was a total mindboggling genius even if he wasn't very right about some things...transformed the world in just about every way..some say for the worse which isn't that clever. swings and roundabouts..dolphins never screwed with their enviroment and they haven't even got hair...samson and delilah had a hair thing going as well................. basically he had well clever hair and no ethical smarts whatsoever...m.b.

Answer 8

Einstein left his brain to science. When they studied it, they found that although he didn't have many more neurons than normal, each neuron had twice as many glial support cells. The cells that support the neurons. So what brain he had could do a lot more work a lot faster than the normal persons.

Answer 9

Einstein's brain also contained 73 percent more glial cells than the average brain Also, his inferior parietal lobe of his brain was 15 percent wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement.

Answer 10

Actually, even though it can be said he had a comparatively high IQ, he was intent and focused on something in which he was very interested. There was an article in Scientific American magazine a few months ago about people who seemed to be geniuses since they excelled in their endeavors compared to others, but really weren't that much "smarter than the average bear". One person mentioned in the article was a world champion chess Grand Master who was self taught at chess and had no formal training or coaching. he just really liked the game and kicked just about everyone else's butt playing.
So, there is something each of us finds incredibly easy and simple to do but others think is difficult. It is easy for us to do since we are very interested in it.

Answer 11

he looked at things in a different light!

also he had one of those mad professor hairstyles that makes you clever!

Seriously though, i think some people are able to think and express rationally about irrational things and therefore extend their minds beyond the norm. His fourth dimension idea is very simple yet so plausible. He studied continually too, always questioning things. Combine imagination, curiosity and hard work and we all might come up with great ideas.