When will Time Magazine give Credit and recognition to The Artist and Entertainer of The Century Elvis Presley?
Walter Isaacson: I love Elvis. He was the king. Old Shep is my favorite song of his. So that makes me a rather quirky fan. Let me make, right here, an admission: we made a mistake not making him one of our top contenders. But he ain’t the person of the century, any more than he was a hound dog. Questioner asks: How did Einstein express his view(s) on God? Walter Isaacson: He believed in a rather depersonalized God But he had great faith in God’s handiwork One of his favorite phrases was “God does not play dice with the universe.” That was his way of saying that he could not believe in the randomness or uncertainty of some quantum theorists. God may be subtle, Einstein said, but malicious he is not. So Einstein felt that we would someday discover God’s design and remove the notion that there was randomness and uncertainty. The search for God’s design, he said, was the source of all that is beautiful in science and art, and it is what gives true meaning to our lives. In my opening essay,
