One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such me… - Walter Isaacson

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One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

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About Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is a writer and biographer. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He was the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time. He has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.

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Alternative Names: Walter Seff Isaacson
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