Hardcover, 675 pages
English language
Published April 10, 2007 by Simon & Schuster.
Mr Isaacson does it again - another brilliant biography that jumps off the page at you, and next think you know it's as if you're standing over the shoulder of the protagonist as you delve in to their life's story and way of thinking. Bravo!
Albert Einstein was loner with an intimate bond to humanity, writes Walter Isaacson. His fundamental creed was that freedom was the lifeblood of creativity.
“The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit, requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice,” Einstein said.
Creativity requires being willing not to conform. That requires nurturing free minds and free spirits, which in turn requires “a spirit of tolerance.” And the underpinning of tolerance was humility - the belief that no one had the right to impose ideas and beliefs on others.
A fantastic book for an exceptional man of genius.
