Story of inspiration | Passionately curious | Albert Einstein

Passionately curious 

Albert Einstein, Time Magazine's "Person of the Century" received a compass from his father as a young man. The compass set the basis for his first scientific experiment. he wanted to know why! the needle always pointed North. Little did anybody guess that this "high school drop out", so called "stupid" young man would

sprout into one of the most influential geniuses of our time. In a nutshell, we can say that the compass guided him to success since it sparked his curiosity in science. He himself remarked,"

have no special talent, I am only passionately curious" "The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the language in which it is written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangements of books - a mysterious order which it does not

comprehend, but only dimly suspects" One must make the best use of the present to learn something new, to create and make the earth richer byones existence. "Creativity is contagious. Pass it on". One should not dwell in

the past except to learn from one's mistakes. One who has never made mistakes has not tried to achieve anything in life. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough" The present is what is important so grasp this moment "Now" and do whatever you wish to do.

Einstein's brain was no different from yours or mine - same weight, same size, same dimensions. What made him genius was
that he possessed something that "spurred him on". Einstein said that "Man, like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think and will behave from habit like an automation” or machine.
Einstein's theory of relativity was revolutionary, but he swayed from a scientific explanation when he was asked what it meant.
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute" he said, “But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity”.

Einstein understood the power of the mind, yet he still understood the danger of it. On the one side of the table he found that his famous equation for atomic energy could power
huge cities. At the other side, he saw that it could destroy them. He warned that "We should take care not to make the intellect our God, it has, ofcourse, powerful muscles, but no
personality," He even said once "imagination is more important
than knowledge". Albert Einstein focused on the present and made the best use of time. When he was involved with his experiments he forgot everything else. He was caught in the spirit of the activity and even forgot to eat or sleep till he was satisfied with the results of his experiments. In his own words, “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future".

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