Quotes from Walter Isaacson

El de relatividad es un concepto sencillo. Afirma que las leyes fundamentales de la física son las mismas cualquiera que sea nuestro estado de movimiento.

Genetic vaccines The plague year of 2020 is likely to be remembered as the time when these traditional vaccines began to be supplanted by genetic vaccines. Instead of injecting a weakened or partial version of the dangerous virus into humans, these new vaccines deliver a gene or piece of genetic coding that will guide human cells to produce, on their own, components of the virus. The goal is for these components to stimulate the patient's immune system.

Pauli Murray perfected two characteristics of leadership: indomitable persistence and relentless self-invention.

Despite the fact that Murray was one of the preeminent civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, most people have never heard of her. She achieved her leadership role and her success in subverting white supremacy by learning from her failures and capitalizing on the most incremental successes.

A Einstein le ponía los pelos de punta cualquier forma de tiranía sobre las mentes libres, desde el nazismo hasta el estalinismo, pasando por el macartismo.

Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

Einstein's great strength: he could look at a complex mathematical equation, which for others was merely an abstraction, and picture the physical reality that lay behind it.

There is some difference between them and sheep: Sheep will never make any insurrections.

Never an insider, Murray used her outsider status to make herself a thorn in the side of segregation and political oppression.

Looking back at a century that will be remembered for its willingness to break classical bonds, and looking ahead to an era that seeks to nurture the creativity needed for scientific innovation, one person stands out as a paramount icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity, and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55

Franklin's scientific achievements placed him in the pantheon with Newton. Franklin's experiments, he wrote in 1941, "afforded a basis for the explanation for all the known phenomena of electricity."16 Franklin

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

A neuron is a nerve cell that transmits information using electrical or chemical signals. A synapse is a structure or pathway that carries a signal from a neuron to another neuron or cell.

It was fitting that a virus-fighting team would be led by a CRISPR pioneer. The gene-editing tool that Doudna and others developed in 2012 is based on a virus-fighting trick used by bacteria, which have been battling viruses for more than a billion years. In their DNA, bacteria develop clustered repeated sequences, known as CRISPRs, that can remember and then destroy viruses that attack them.

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57

In one letter he also came up with a very specific scheme for using dogs as scouts. "They should be large, strong and fierce," he wrote, "and every dog led in a slip strong to prevent them tiring themselves by running out and in and discovering the party by barking at squirrels.

cross between an enhanced eBook and a wiki so that new forms of multimedia history can emerge that are partly author-guided and partly crowdsourced.)

When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair

All true democrats must stand guard lest the old class tyranny of the Right be replaced by a new class tyranny of the Left

Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.

El asunto es que la gente no se vea obligada a recorrer una cadena de mando —indicó uno de los técnicos de Intel, Ted Hoff—. Si uno necesita hablar con un gerente en concreto, va y habla con él.

His theory indicated that the universe would have to be either expanding or contracting, not staying static. According to his field equations, a static universe was impossible because the gravitational forces would pull all the matter together.