Conventional wisdom Quote by Walter Isaacson

“Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are with the…

— Felix Alba-Juez

“Einstein later discovered the value of a disciplined regimen, but in his youth he despised it in all its forms,”

— Alexander Kennedy

“This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to be one…

— Walter Isaacson

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —ALBERT EINSTEIN1”

— Peter H. Johnston

“he described his own ideals, the desire for fulfillment not just as a theorist but also as an experimental physicist. (In the second respect,…

— Abraham Pais

“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the…

— Orson Scott Card

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

“Stubbornness is determination stripped of wisdom.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are…

— George Sarton

“Einstein is reputed to have said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

— Clark A. Campbell

“Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Wisdom has no substitute and those who are wise don't argue against it.”

— AarEss