“According to the assumption to be considered here, when a light ray is propagated from a point, the energy is not continuously… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any… — 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
“His new idea was published that month in what became yet another seminal Einstein paper, “Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Einstein’s theory produced a law of the photoelectric effect that was experimentally testable: the energy of emitted electrons would depend on the… — 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
“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
“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
“It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed… — 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
I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, (Einstein) would take rambling walks on his own, which could be dicey. One day someone called the Institute and asked to… — 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
“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
“Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Instead, this time he made what he called a “slight modification” to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“As scientists would discover after Einstein’s death, Schwarzschild’s odd theory was right. Stars could collapse and create such a phenomenon, and in… — 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
“After three weeks of lectures and receptions in New York, Einstein paid a visit to Washington. For reasons fathomable only by those… — 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
“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
“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
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 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
