Commentaries on Albert Einstein

If I had to choose one scientist out of all of them who represented the most common average Joe in the world, I would have to choose Albert Einstein. I wouldn’t make this decision based on some sort of arbitrary intelligence test, but on his personality and his behavior. I think most people have something in common with this individual, which is one reason why he is recognized as so inspiring; he was quirky, stubborn, relatively humorous, and was brought up like a very normal person, unlike most other scientists whom we can think of who are more easily comparable to robots and planks of wood than to humans. We feel we understand him, but that is not to say he was a simple guy. No, Albert Einstein – although we feel we have a lot in common with him – was a complicated man, and the perfect character for this book to culminate with. Sir Isaac Newton studied solid matter, Daniel Bernoulli studied fluids, Michael Faraday studied electricity, and Rudolph Clausius studied heat – what better way is there to end such a story than to discuss someone who studied the relationship between all matter and forms of energy? Well there isn’t one I guess. Furthermore, his discovery of how to turn matter into energy and vice versa was one of the most important equations in history and is the answer to age long questions, but without Sir Isaac Newtons’ equation, and Bernoullis’ principle (etc), his wouldn’t make any sense and he would not be able to even think of it in the first place. It changed the world in good ways and bad, that’s for sure, (the same can be said about all the equations mentioned in this book) but what does the world have in store for us? What else is there to know? Perhaps there is a lot more out there than we think, and if I learnt anything from this book at all, it is that we can learn extraordinary things if we put are minds to it, and most importantly, if we have that desire – that interest – we will succeed.