“The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a ‘cosmological constant’ to his equation for the expansion of the universe but then retracted… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“At a reception at the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, which now boasts the world's most interesting statue of Einstein,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Einstein had a similar conversation with his friend in Prague, Philipp Frank. “A new fashion has arisen in physics,” Einstein complained, which… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“It was a perfect school for Einstein. The teaching was based on the philosophy of a Swiss educational reformer of the early… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?” Einstein asked. “I think it is the sexual character of the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“It was by all accounts a pleasant Atlantic crossing, during which Einstein tried to explain relativity to Weissmann. Asked upon their arrival… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Einstein also became a supporter of racial tolerance. When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“By then Einstein had finally discovered what was fundamental about America: it can be swept by waves of what may seem, to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image