What made Albert Einstein tick?

What made Albert Einstein tick? 

Popular myths about the physics laureate’s brain are as enduring as his impact on our understanding of space, time and gravity. 

Perhaps the most common of them is that Einstein had an unusually large brain, but this simply isn’t true. 

After he died in 1955, Einstein’s brain was removed by a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who preserved, photographed, and measured it. It weighed 1,230g, which is at the low end of average for modern humans.

However, further examination of photographs by a team at McMaster University, Canada, revealed that Einstein’s parietal lobes were 15% wider than average. While these lobes are implicated in mathematical, visual, and spatial cognition and it is intriguing to think they may help explain Einstein’s remarkable abilities, this link cannot be proved.

One thing we can be sure of is Einstein’s work ethic, curiosity and humility, which helped him achieve great things. 

"We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists. If this humility could be imparted to everybody, the world of human endeavours would become more appealing," he said.

Learn more : He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921.