Einstein: His Life and Universe

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Einstein: His Life and Universe

By Walter Isaacson

Book overview

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, a life and the biography of the German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.

Einstein: His Life and Universe quotes

1.When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.
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2.Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
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3.The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
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4.The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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5.I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” Albert said, “at least for me.”
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6.A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
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7.Back in 1917, when Einstein had analyzed the “cosmological considerations” arising from his general theory of relativity, most astronomers thought that the universe consisted only of our Milky Way, floating with its 100 billion or so stars in a void of em
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8.Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace.
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