Ideas and Opinions

I've always had an interest in learning more about Einstein. What I found surprised me. Especially, the difference from his first letters about the new America to his socialist stance much later. This book should help people realize that sometimes we make too much of people. While he certainly contributed to science be thankful that he never got his shot at social engineering. This is the kind of guy Ayn Rand would despise. After all what did Einstein actually do? Did he start a company? Did he employee people? I'd argue that the person who invented velcro did more for this world than Einstein. Sure there is a need for scientists and we should appreciate their contributions but we should also be careful not to accept the whole of them without closer scrutiny.

This book was easy to read, but hard to follow. In effect it was a way to see how such a genius formed his thoughts. Many other great minds have autobiographies, but rarely do you see a chance to see how such great thoughts are formed.

This is some very interesting stuff, but not really as easy to foll0w as I'd hoped. But then again, I might just be stupid.

his children either commited suicide or went insane, he cheated both his wives perpetually, loved young women, had a bunch of affairs. he encouraged the building of the atom bomb, although he regretted.

his idea about marriage is, man does whatever he wants and woman obeys him unquestionably. even if he would say otherwise in this book, that's what he did in real life. not only that, but whenever he asks her something, she must answer immediately without taking too long. and then he sayd that he is not really a family man, then why did he marry in the first place?

enough that he was a brillant man who put work above all else, but giving me lectures of what he failed in is too much. i gave him 5 stars in all but this book, this one gets 2, just because he is einstein. otherwise would have been 1.

i see this book as something to make up for his misdeeds. he wrote this book for himself.

i see ghandi or thoreau greater than he ever was. and i can make this comparison because what his book is about. i don't admire einstein as a human being, but as a scientist. you see, einstein's grand brain was fueled by a very small heart.

[Edited later]
Well, perhaps I've been to hasty in my words.

Einstein's grand brain and "grand heart" might and the world he was living in might be a reason for his errors. I shouldn't judge him too severely since I am not perfect myself (and even if I was, I should not).

He loved women he had a lot of affairs, but his greastest works came at a time when he married or divorced. He loved children all over the world, but his own children died young (and he has a part of the blame). He is a strange character.

interesting work

check out something by Peter Kreeft for further reading