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These are a few summarizations from my reading of Walter Isaacson Biography of Albert Einstein. I found the book thick at times from all the talk of relativity and science but also found incredibly inspiring and telling. How he cherished freedom of thought and the importance it had on creativity, science, society, art and our world. <\/p>\n

Try to learn from a genius to get closer to being one. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

\u201cLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cAccumulation of material should not stifle the student\u2019s independence\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe human mind sees more sharply than the human eye.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cImagination is more important than knowledge.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cIt is important to foster individuality. For only the individual can produce the new ideas\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe fundamental requirement of education, is to provide intellectual freedom.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cBlind respect for authority is the greater enemy of truth.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cTo dwell o the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. \u201c<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cGod created donkeys and gave them thick skins.\u201d – Have a thick skin <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Work gives us substance to life. Work is the only thing that gives substance to life. <\/em><\/h3>\n

Losing a child – \u201cThe deepest sorrow loving parents can experience has come upon you.<\/em> <\/h3>\n

He was very optimistic in the last days before his death. \u201cWell, we\u2019ve learned somethings today\u201d as the hour clock would tick down. <\/p>\n

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. He strongly believed in the power imagination and intuition had in science and art. <\/p>\n

Mozart\u2019s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Music can solve all of our difficulties<\/p>\n

He thought in pictures<\/p>\n

Einstein had an ability to Concentrate. Even in large noisy groups, he could withdraw with pen and paper and compete a problem he had. <\/p>\n

The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. <\/p>\n

Tenacity<\/strong><\/p>\n

There should be great importance to nurture the inner dignity and individuality of each child. Let students reach their own conclusions. <\/p>\n

Visual understanding is essential and only true means of teachings how to judge things correctly. <\/p>\n

He believed that people should consider themselves citizens of the world – we all have a personal responsibility. <\/p>\n

Let people and kids be free thinkers <\/p>\n

Be able to jingle many ideas at the same time<\/strong><\/p>\n

The World loves simplicity <\/p>\n

Be flexible in your thinking. He does not remain attached to classical principles and, when presented with a problem in physics, is prompt to envision all the possibilities. He adapts. <\/p>\n

Math is nature\u2019s playbook. Math is a tool for discovery. <\/p>\n

He would aim for simplicity and beauty, and beauty for him was, after all, essentially simplicity.<\/p>\n

\u201cNature is pleased with simplicity. Nature is the realization of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cART and science is an escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.<\/strong> Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpools of personal experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dangers of the loss of freedoms.<\/strong> \u201c If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake. Without freedom there would have been SHAKESPEARE<\/strong> no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister – Freedom is the foundation of creativity. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Intellectual freedoms –<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ve always thought that the German universities\u2019 most valuable institution is academic freedom, whereby the lectures are in no way told what to teach, and the students are able to choose what lectures to attend, without much supervision and control. <\/p>\n

It is better to build, not tear down. <\/p>\n

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving. And every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession. <\/p>\n

\u201cAny Government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over the very channel of education and information as well over the existence of every single citizen\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTolerance of free expression of independence of thought he repeatedly argued were the core values that Americans, to his delight most cherished\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHow is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected?\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

He was fiercely protective of individual liberties I think cranky about government interference and distrustful of great concentrations of wealth.”<\/p>\n

He believed in sticking to your guns. – \u201cIt gives me great pleasure to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.\u201d <\/p>\n

The core of the 1st Amendment was the core of America’s cherished freedoms. – First Amendment<\/p>\n

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    First Amendment Annotated
    <\/strong>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    He equaled McCarthyism to Fascism – a trample on our civil liberties. <\/p>\n

    He believed in passionately fighting against any kind of dogma based on authority. <\/p>\n

    The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists of the independence of thought from the restriction of authoritarian and social prejudice. Nurturing that should be the fundamental role of government and the mission of education. <\/p>\n

    Creativity requires being willing not to conform. That required nurturing free minds and free spirits, which in turn required a spirit of tolerance. And the underpinning of tolerance was humility<\/strong>. – that no one had the right to impose ideas and beliefs on others. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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      \u201cBrief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house.\u201d <\/em><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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      \u201cThe strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.\u201d <\/em><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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      \u201cI have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.\u201d <\/em><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n