Albert Einstein by Kathleen Krull
From the inside cover:
The proud possessor of possibly the worst case of bedhead in history. Albert Einstein was a giant to be sure - in fact, his name has become a synonym for "genius." But was he a scientist? Not in the ordinary sense of the word. Einstein didn't like to work in a lab (he had a tendency to blow things up), rarely did experiments to back up his theories, and had trouble working out mathematical proofs. What he excelled at was thinking - on hikes, while playing the violin, even at the dinner table. And by endlessly pondering what he called "thought experiments," he managed to lay bare the limits of Newtonian physics and bring about a new understanding of "givens" such as time and space.
I love Kathleen Krull's series Giants of Science, she uncovers fun facts about the person that seemed to influence their science. Isaac Newton was insanely competitive, Enstein a rebel, and these attributes influenced their break-throughs in the world of science.
I'll end this posting with one of my favourite Einstein quotes, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."
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