the parts that I underlined

In this post I would like to share with you some of the parts that
I underlined while reading Walter Isaacson's great book about
Albert Einstein.

I am only doing this because I bellive that these parts give us insight -
some which anyone reading this may already have - but I thought these
parts were worth sharing - becuase Albert Einstein was not only an
American Icon - but he was the Quinessential Genius.


~He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who
was suffused with reverence.

~What made Einstein special was that his mind and soul were tempered
by (this) humility.

~By then Einstein had finally discovered what was fundamental about
America; it can be swept by waves of what may seem, to outsiders, to be
dangerous and righted by its constitutional gyroscope.

~His ability to engender and feel such affection (referring to Margot when
he said: 'When Margot speaks you see flowers growing') belied his
reputation for being emotionally distant.

~Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

~There was always in him a powerful purity at once childlike and
profundly stubborn. (J. Robert Oppenheimer)

and this from Isaacson's chapter Einstein's God:

Someone asked Einstein if he was - in fact - religious.


'Yes, you can call it that,'  Einstein replied calmly. 'Try and
penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and
you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and
connections, there remains something subtle, intangible
and inexplicable.  Veneration for this force beyond
anything that we can comprehend is my religion.  To
that extent I am, in fact, religious.'








Humility is the only feeling I can have in the Presence of a
Genuis such as this.







Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)