Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.' Discover how this insight highlights true ...

Albert Einstein must be the most iconic figure in the scientific world. When we think of geniuses, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, or even Copernicus come to ...

"The greatest scientists are artists as well," said Albert Einstein (Calaprice, 2000, 245). As one of the greatest physicists of all time and a fine amateur pianist and violinist, he ought to have ...

The French philosopher Renee Descartes took some time before convincing himself that he really existed. Or, in his words, “Cogito, ergo sum,” which is Latin for I think, therefore I am. While most of ...

Robert Berks, the sculptor who crafted the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, D.C., taught himself art by leaving school at lunchtime to copy the greats on display at the Boston Museum of Fine ...

Considered the epitome of genius, Albert Einstein appears like a wellspring of intellect gushing forth fully formed from the ground, without precedents or process. There was little in his lineage to ...