Comments on: The Whereabouts of Dr. Einstein’s Brain https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-75557 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:26:52 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-75557 Finished.

]]> By: Marian IONESCU-VLASCEANU https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-39328 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:13:47 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-39328 Whwn the science will be good enough (nanotechnology, regenerative medicine) they will resurrect and rejuvenate his brain, put it in a fresh stem cells body and talk with him.

]]> By: ivette diaz https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-39198 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:21:33 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-39198 Very interesting. I had read that Einstein would play the violin when he would be stuck on any work he was doing. He said he used to find answers through music. It was his creativity that would find the answers for him.

The reason this is interesting is because they state that his section of the brain that is responsible for this was more developed. His brain was also 15% larger than a normal human brain for his age.

As we know, the brain is a muscle that we could all develop. Don’t be discouraged my friends, we could all have a brain similar to Einsteins IF we want to.

]]> By: leslie64 https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-38409 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:43:45 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-38409

Jason Bellows said: “Ah, but this begs the question, did the enhanced brain cause his spectacular thinking, or was it all that thinking that built up his brain?”

Just watching a show on Ancient Aliens, which enviably brought up Einstein and the whole can’t travel faster than the speed of light thing, which then made me start typing stuff in my web browser, which then led me to your comment which was right up the alley I was travelling. I agree with your train of thought. Is a person born with the gift of exceptional thought or is the brain trained by a God given (or whatever you believe in) talent and interest in a given subject?

It is my belief that anyone can be an Einstein if only they would pull their heads out of their butts and actually follow up on an idea they have. I also must say that I respect Einstein and all he was able to achieve, but I really don’t think Einstein was as smart as people think. He only appears that way to stupid people. That is to say, the way Einstein appears to the common man is similar to the rear-view mirror in your car which appears to make far away object seem closer.

Les

]]> By: Samantha https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-27469 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:48:38 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-27469 [quote]John said: “Albert Einstein actually had an enlarged Parietal Lobe, where the visual spatial thinking resides. There is some thought amongst klinefelters (genetically 47XXY) (whom also have an enlarged parietal lobe), that Einstein, was a 47XXY (mosaic).”[/quote]

can u put that in english please

]]> By: Samantha https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-27468 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:47:17 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-27468 i read from a article online that they took his eyes too and gave them to his eye doctor but i dont know if what they said was true and was his brain not a normal size when he was born or was him thinking more cause it to grow cuz i read books on him and it said even when he was born he had a odd shaped head thats why they said he looked like he was stupid and wouldnt talk but what people dont know is that he didnt want to talk untill he knew how to talk in compleat sentences and was putting them together in his mind

]]> By: John https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-27343 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:37:26 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-27343 Albert Einstein actually had an enlarged Parietal Lobe, where the visual spatial thinking resides. There is some thought amongst klinefelters (genetically 47XXY) (whom also have an enlarged parietal lobe), that Einstein, was a 47XXY (mosaic).

]]> By: nikrulz1106 https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-26077 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:04:29 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-26077 Find few more interesting things at http://www.allfaltugyan.com

]]> By: ashley_chemistry https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-25890 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:08:51 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-25890 Einstein was a product of incest. I wonder did this have any influence on the development of his remarkable brain?

]]> By: bubaks https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-whereabouts-of-dr-einsteins-brain/#comment-25119 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:16:48 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=207#comment-25119 [quote]dentarthurdent said: “Old Man said: “Does no one else care that this man’s brain (and a great man’s brain, too) was removed without his permission and has been jealously guarded, cut up, immersed in formaldehyde, studied, and allowed to sit around in jars?”
Most definitely. The guy deserves way more respect than that.”[/quote]

Respect is showed in different ways by different people. Throwing his brain into a fire, or burying it in the soil isn’t exactly respect to me. I feel that the greatest respect one could give a dead man is utilizing his body parts and let as little as possible go to waste.

If he is dead he’s not gonna care what happens to his body right? He is dead for Christ’s sake. But if it was his wish to be cremated (brain included), then i guess the ethical thing to do is honor those wishes..?

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