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- Hidup itu seperti mengendarai sepeda. Untuk menjaga keseimbangan, sepeda harus terus berjalan. Demikian pula hidup ini.
- Tidak ada hal yang lebih lembut dari kekuatan, dan tidak ada hal yang lebih kuat dari kelembutan.
- Senyuman merupakan hal kecil yang dapat membuat hidup ini menjadi lebih mudah.
- Kesenanagan terbesar dalam hidup ini adalah melakukan hal, dimana orang lain menganggap bahwa kita tidak mampu melakukan hal tersebut.
- Terkadang manusia bisa menjadi air seperti malaikat, tapi manusia juga bisa menjadi api yang membakar semua seperti iblis.
- Setajam-tajamnya pedang pasti ada sisi tumpulnya, seburuk-buruknya seseorang pasti ada sisi baiknya.
- keindahan dalam cinta itu bukan dari pelukannya atau ciumannya tapi dari kesetiaannya.
- Saat dalam cinta tak ada orang yang cerdas.

12/10/2012

Einstein's Brain


In his last years of life, Albert Einstein knew he was ill and refused operations that would save his life. He made his wishes clear: "I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones" [source: Paterniti]. Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at the age of 76 of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurism, and he got his wish as far as his bones were concerned; his ashes were scattered in an undisclosed location. But Einstein's brain was a different matter.
During the autopsy, conducted at Princeton Hospital, a pathologist named Thomas Harvey removed Einstein's brain -- the brain that had given the world such revolutionary thoughts as E=mc², the theory of relativity, an understanding of the speed of light and the idea that led to the completion of the atomic bomb. Harvey held the brain that produced those thoughts in his hands. And then he took it.
Depending on whom you believe, Harvey either did a wonderful thing for science that day, or he's no better than a common grave robber. Einstein had participated in studies during his lifetime to ascertain what might have made his brain different, and at least one biographer claims that Einstein wished for his gray matter to be studied after death [source: Altman]. Others claim that the brain fell under the category of things Einstein wanted cremated, and there was further outrage when it was revealed that another person removed Einstein's eyeballs as a souvenir [source: Paterniti].
I­n some ways, though, Einstein got his wish. No one could come to worship at the relic of his brain, simply because no one except Harvey knew where it was. After Harvey's removal of the brain made news, he secured the permission of one of Einstein's sons to study the brain, with the results to be published in reputable journals. Harvey felt it wouldn't take very long at all to figure out what made Einstein's brain different and special -- surely the brain of such a genius would reveal its secrets quickly. But no studies appeared in the years following Einstein's death, and then Harvey himself, who, again, was merely a pathologist and not a neuroscientist, disappeared with the brain
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