# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu_3h2Jnh2L
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16448296-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/630c3a9414.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-03-14T17:57:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
A mind so gifted that his very name is shorthand for genius, Albert Einstein was born 140 years ago today.
The German-born physicist, and later American citizen, developed a higher understanding of the universe through his theory of relativity, while advocating humanity and curiosity amongst mankind. 
A pacifist in principle, Einstein was said to have claimed that “I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them.”
Devising perhaps the only equation to have made it into pop culture - E=mc2 - Einstein also had some remarkable photo faces. Explore more via the bio link gettyarchive.
📷: Ruth Orkin/Getty Images | 1953
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