Able Quote by Walter Isaacson

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon.,…

— Lewis Thomas

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because…

— Halle Berry

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away…

— Tara Westover

“What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?” Einstein asked. “I think it is the sexual character of the male that…

— Walter Isaacson

“Einstein also became a supporter of racial tolerance. When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau…

— Walter Isaacson

“It was by all accounts a pleasant Atlantic crossing, during which Einstein tried to explain relativity to Weissmann. Asked upon their arrival whether he…

— Walter Isaacson

“Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist,…

— Walter Isaacson

“The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife…

— Walter Isaacson

“Like Spinoza, Einstein did not believe in a personal God who interacted with man. But they both believed that a divine design was reflected…

— Walter Isaacson

“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 equations that…

— Walter Isaacson

“At a reception at the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, which now boasts the world's most interesting statue of Einstein, a twelve…

— Walter Isaacson

“The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when there are…

— Walter Isaacson