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Einstein is a large lunar impact crater that lies along the western limb of the Moon, which makes it difficult to observe from the Earth. The visibility of this formation is subject to libration effects, but even under the best conditions not much detail can be observed except from lunar orbit. Nearby craters of note include Moseley just to the north, Dalton along the eastern rim, Vasco da Gama just to the southeast, and Bohr to the south-southeast. The formation Vallis Bohr is visible to the south. The outer rim of this walled plain has been strongly obliterated by many smaller impacts. Occupying the center of the interior floor is Einstein A, an impact crater with terraced inner walls and a central peak. The outer rampart of this concentric crater spreads across the interior floor, covering over half the diameter of Einstein. Several smaller craters also lie scattered across the floor, but there are sections of relatively flat surface in the southwest part of the floor. Two small craters on the west side have fissured floors. These are believed to be secondary craters from the Orientale impact to the south. The widespread notion that this crater was discovered by Patrick Moore in 1939 is probably erroneous. In the middle of the 20th century Hugh Percy Wilkins designated the crater Caramuel to honor Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz. The crater was known under this unofficial name for some time, but neither this name, nor almost all of Wilkins' other nomenclature, were adopted by the International Astronomical Union. In 1963 E. Whitaker and D.W.G. Arthur named thie crater Einstein after Albert Einstein, and in 1964 this name was adopted by the IAU. Wilkins' map also contained a crater called Einstein, but it is a less prominent one – . Satellite craters

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Notable quotes

“❝Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.❞”
— Repeated throughout his life, see: Quote Investigator
“I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.”
— Interview with Rabindranath Tagore (14 April 1930), published in The Religion of Man (1930) by Rabindranath Tagore, p. 222, and in The Tagore Reader (1971) edited by Amiya Chakravarty
“I am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.”
— Letter to his cousin Richard Einstein (October 1947)
“I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.”
— Ch. 27 A reply to the Soviet scientists (1948)
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
— Letter to an atheist (24 March 1954), p. 43
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances in science”
— http://umich.edu/~scps/html/01chap/html/summary.htm

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Notable quotes

“❝Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.❞”
— Repeated throughout his life, see: Quote Investigator
“I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.”
— Interview with Rabindranath Tagore (14 April 1930), published in The Religion of Man (1930) by Rabindranath Tagore, p. 222, and in The Tagore Reader (1971) edited by Amiya Chakravarty
“I am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.”
— Letter to his cousin Richard Einstein (October 1947)
“I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.”
— Ch. 27 A reply to the Soviet scientists (1948)
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
— Letter to an atheist (24 March 1954), p. 43
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances in science”
— http://umich.edu/~scps/html/01chap/html/summary.htm

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Overview

Einstein is a large lunar impact crater that lies along the western limb of the Moon, which makes it difficult to observe from the Earth. The visibility of this formation is subject to libration effects, but even under the best conditions not much detail can be observed except from lunar orbit. Nearby craters of note include Moseley just to the north, Dalton along the eastern rim, Vasco da Gama just to the southeast, and Bohr to the south-southeast. The formation Vallis Bohr is visible to the south. The outer rim of this walled plain has been strongly obliterated by many smaller impacts. Occupying the center of the interior floor is Einstein A, an impact crater with terraced inner walls and a central peak. The outer rampart of this concentric crater spreads across the interior floor, covering over half the diameter of Einstein. Several smaller craters also lie scattered across the floor, but there are sections of relatively flat surface in the southwest part of the floor. Two small craters on the west side have fissured floors. These are believed to be secondary craters from the Orientale impact to the south. The widespread notion that this crater was discovered by Patrick Moore in 1939 is probably erroneous. In the middle of the 20th century Hugh Percy Wilkins designated the crater Caramuel to honor Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz. The crater was known under this unofficial name for some time, but neither this name, nor almost all of Wilkins' other nomenclature, were adopted by the International Astronomical Union. In 1963 E. Whitaker and D.W.G. Arthur named thie crater Einstein after Albert Einstein, and in 1964 this name was adopted by the IAU. Wilkins' map also contained a crater called Einstein, but it is a less prominent one – . Satellite craters

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