If I have read this book in my elementary school, I could have studies science.---"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. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us...

Ok, honestly I skimmed over a lot of the theoretical physics scientific explanations. I was more interested in his personal background and history but I was surprised about how many other scientists contributed to his ideas and that his genius was in his thought experiments which few other scientists could folllow. And he left it up to them to prove his theories through mathematical measurements or laboratory experiments. The writing is a bit stodgy and pedantic even when relating his personal

A brief review of Albert Einstein’s life, complete with some photos and copies of documents. Also contains a section of translations of key documents. A more complete and scholarly work by Isaacson (from which this book apparently draws) is “Einstein: His Life and Universe” ; Walter Isaacson; Simon & Schuster, 2007, 2008.

This book was a very useful book to read if it is hard for you to read the bigger version of Einstein. This book has more information about the scientists that helped make the Einsteins theories. Also the many different small factors of his life is written in here with some pictures. It is much more easier than the thicker version and easier to understand the concepts of the many different theories he made.

While interesting and informative, it lacked a certain inspirational quality which I was kind of hoping for.However, I was pleasantly surprised that the scientific explanations were written in such a way that I, knowing next to nothing about science, was able to understand most of what was going on.I was annoyed, intrigued, frustrated and impressed by Einstein all throughout the reading of this book. The author paints him as a human, flaws and all, standing up for what he believed. Which I guess...

I listened to the audio book, and I have enjoyed a great deal. Not only the book goes over the details of Einstein’s life, it also touches on the scientific concepts that he has worked on as well. Quantum physics or field theory or relativity or tensor. So, it made me interested to start reading about those subjects as well.I knew Einstein has revolutionized physics before listening to this book, but I wasn’t aware his political influence, the evolution of his theories and the level of collabora...

Walter Isaacson is a master. I loved Ben Franklin so I picked up this one. I learned about physics as well as Einstein's life and mind. He was a really interesting, moral thinker. His thought experiments that taught him so much and allowed him to visualize complex physical questions validated (for me) my own habit of doing that. His vision of a benign one-world government is perhaps naive but also tempting to hope for given all the human conflict around. I highly recommend Walter Isaacson in gen...

i love it because he my inpiration

An excellent biography of a great scientist. It's strength is the portrayal of the man's foibles, as well as, his intellectual accomplishments. By understanding his life experiences, we see more clearly his drive to learn and discover about his own nature, as well as Nature.

A shorter picture book version of Isaacson's 600+ page earlier biography of Einstein, this was readable, even for a non-scientist like me. The many visuals (photographs, documents, etc.) enriched the whole. I had started to read Isaacson's larger Einstein biography, but discontinued in favor of this one. The text is selected from the larger, earlier book, just not as much of it.The life of Albert Einstein was so much more than I had known before reading this. He was an amazing man in so many way...

My takeaway after reading this very good book is that Einstein was somewhat 30% a smart guy, and 70% a self-made celebrity, like the Kardashians (is it how you spell it?). It was extremely difficult for him to find a job doing anything at all. He tried teaching at his school, research, etc, to no avail. Even the famous patent office gave him the job after many years of asking for it. Nobody ever responded to the abundance of resumes and cover letters that he sent all over the place. He was unabl...

Strangely, I relate to Einstein greatly, not because I'm a scientist or a genius, I'm neither. My iq is above average and that's cool with me. But his general disposition, being so distracted by intense trains of thoughts and ideas that one forgets to pack underwear for their trip, or never thinks to remember those mundane details such as socks and eating. The distraction that comes about with fascination. That stuff has me written all over it. I envy his life. He always had a spouse taking care...

I just regret not having read this book before.

This book gave me a composite overview of Einstein’s life beyond the details of his scientific genius. Isaacson’s book gave an outstanding narrative, was filled with photos and relevant documents, and captured me as a engaged reader. Einstein was a complex man whose public and private life were intermeshed with purpose and passion. The author described Einstein’s early life and bent toward what he called “thought experiments” in which he embraced “imagination” as his greatest tool. Isaacson told...

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Great book about the man behind the genius. Incredible imagination and ability to use it to challenge accepted physics with objective new theories that were only then tested to prove them out. Book makes some of the thought experiments understandable, such as the shrinking of dimensions as objects approach the speed of light. Interesting to see the social strengths and failings, showing how real a man he was.A bit slow in places, but well worth the full 5 stars, given the historical significance...

Great biography, nailed it. Einstein has always intrigued me. Isaacson pulls it off again.

Nicely layout of Einstein's live timeline. It covers more of the personal side than professional side, the struggling in getting the answers to the problems. It pinches me that success is not a linear line that always goes up. Live has up and down, no matter who you are. Einstein's thought on the education system holds as of today, that schools focus more on teaching facts rather than teaching students to think.

Great book of the life and times of Elbert Einstein, filled with replicated notes and memos, a really interesting way to read a life story