Quotes from Walter Isaacson

Most of us someday will have detection devices in our home that will allow us to check for viruses and many other conditions.

one is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.

Do not be seduced by feelings that a dictatorship of the proletariat is temporarily needed

Al igual que un día bien aprovechado trae un sueño feliz —había escrito Leonardo treinta años antes—, una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»[27] Esta le llegó el 2 de mayo de 1519, al poco de cumplir sesenta y siete años.

The special theory of relativity that Einstein developed in 1905 applies only to this special case (hence the name): a situation in which the observers are moving at a constant velocity relative to one another—uniformly in a straight line at a steady speed—referred to as an "inertial reference system.

So, in 1748 at age 42—which would turn out to be precisely the midpoint of his life—he retired and turned over the operation of his printing business to his foreman, David Hall.

Josiah practiced the art, which his son would perfect, of marrying public virtue with private profit: he made money by selling candles to the night watchmen he oversaw.

no "natural or religious reason [for] the distinction of men into kings and subjects.

human felicity is produced . . . by little advantages that occur every day.

Advances fed on one another, occurring almost simultaneously and spontaneously, at Harvard and MIT and Princeton and Bell Labs and an apartment in Berlin and even, most improbably but interestingly, in a basement in Ames, Iowa.

Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?

When the fermentation is over and the troubling parts subsided, the wine will be fine and good, and cheer the hearts of those that drink it."41 Franklin was wrong, sadly wrong, about the French Revolution, though he would not live long enough to learn it. Le Veillard would soon lose his life to the guillotine. So would Lavoisier the chemist, who had worked with him on the Mesmer investigation. Condorcet, the economist who had accompanied

El éxito trae complacencia. La complacencia trae fracaso. Solo sobrevive el paranoico.

I think this is going to trigger 'Sputnik 2.0,' a biomedical duel on progress between China and the United States," said Carl June, a noted cancer researcher at the University of Pennsylvania who at the time was still struggling to get regulatory approval for a similar clinical trial.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

The next day they had lunch, followed by a stroll along the cobblestone streets of old San Juan. When the discussion turned to Cas9, Charpentier became excited. "We have to figure out exactly how it works," she urged Doudna. "What's the exact mechanism it uses to cut DNA?

Man's knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.

it folded and twisted, which would reveal how it interacted with other molecules.5

According to that theory, clocks in stronger gravitational fields run more slowly than those in weaker gravity.

The central idea of general relativity is that gravity arises from the curvature of spacetime

tinker with a lot of contraptions. A few months after Franklin returned to Philadelphia, Dr. Spencer came

the sequence of letters in the DNA did not reveal how it worked; what was important was

people should consider themselves citizens of the world.