Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”6

His success came from questioning conventional wisdom, challenging authority, and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.

only the individual can produce the new ideas.”8

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,”

Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish.