Above: Ralph Morse’s photograph of Einstein’s office in Princeton, taken hours after Einstein’s death and captured exactly as the Nobel Prize-winner left it.
(see more — LIFE at 75: LIFE Photographers Look Back)
Office of a Genius http://life.tumblr.com/post/13206856687/when-albert-einstein-died-on-april-18-1955-his
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Bill Owens may be America’s best-known photographer of suburban life. In his seminal 1972 book Suburbia, he documented the places where America lives, celebrating the ‘burbs and their residents with a patriotic delight … while maintaining an ironic distance that keeps his work relevant today.
“What I like about this is there’s nobody watching the parade. It’s just the people having a parade. Everybody participates so they just walked down the street and walk back, and in ten minutes it’s over.”
see more — Suburbia: A Portfolio by Bill Owens
My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand [below].
TEMPERANCE
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
SILENCE
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
ORDER
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
RESOLUTION
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
FRUGALITY
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
INDUSTRY
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
SINCERITY
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
JUSTICE
Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
MODERATION
Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
CLEANLINESS
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
TRANQUILITY
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
CHASTITY
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
HUMILITY
Imitate Jesus and Socrates
— John Hegarty, BBH
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence”
-Robert Frost, on education
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