Book Thinking like Eistein, visual thinking...

Recently I have finished a reading on "Thinking like Eistein: Returning To Our Visual Roots With The Emerging Revolution In Computer Information Visualization", a book written by Thomas G. West. In fact I grabbed the book because of the information visualization part, but when I saw the tittle and the author's experience, I had not doubt on reading it.

Is not a science book by itself, it is better a different point of view. There're quotes to scientific discovery that support one assumption "the visual ability to think makes great minds flourish". It also explains how visual technology had evolved and even better, it explains how the visual abilities of the greatest minds of the last century, Einstein, Faraday, as others were.

Some quotes I'd like to share:

"Exploit your problem, make use of your technical limitations. In art and life, what you can not do makes you more creative" Douglas Adams(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"In a book the written words seems to talk to you as if they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you just the same thing forever"(Socrates)

"If you can visualize the shape, you can understand the system" James Gleick, Chaos Making a new Science.

One of the key concept in the book is: "brilliant minds" seem to follow the same pattern, one where they learn "how to know what we need to know".