A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“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
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Rμv– 1/2 gμv R = 8πTμv The left side of the equation starts with the term Rμv, which is the Ricci tensor… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Thus it was that Einstein ended up deciding that quantum mechanics, though it may not be wrong, was at least incomplete. There… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.” But he immediately proceeded to emphasize the role that “pure reason”… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In other words, there is no single underlying reality that is independent of our observations. “It is wrong to think that the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“We thus arrive at the important result: Events that are simultaneous with reference to the embankment are not simultaneous with respect 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
