Epstein Secrets

o us, and how we reacted to our experiences. Ideology is complex. Its causes are multifaceted and rarely subject to quantification. The philosopher, Descartes, who famously said, “I think therefore I am” got it backwards. I am—I was, I will be—therefore I think what I think. The ability to think is inborn—a

en to Wagner, because he was an anti-Semite, who admired). I also became passionate about art. All kinds of art from Egyptian and Roman Sculpture to Picasso's Guernica and Rodan's Thinker. There were no art poster or reproductions in our home. The walls had mirrors (to make the apartment seem bigger) and

bursts of creativity in art, music, literature and science. A promiscuous brain enabled Bach and Bono, Picasso and Pollock, Shakespeare and Shaw, and Descartes and Darwin. A promiscuous brain enables us to imagine things we have never directly experienced, to create once unimaginable worlds, including blissf

miscuous brain paved the way for awe-inspiring bursts of creativity in art, music, literature and science. A promiscuous brain enabled Bach and Bono, Picasso and Pollock, Shakespeare and Shaw, and Descartes and Darwin. A promiscuous brain enables us to imagine things we have never directly experienced, to

is motivation, but because of what he discovered. Newton was convinced that light was made of particles, which he re- ferred to as corpuscles, while Descartes, and later Newton's nemesis Robert Hooke, and still later the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, all claimed that light was a wave. One of the key

teen years before Einstein developed his ideas on space and time, but his paintings make it clear that our perceptions of the world are subjective. Picasso may have had the chutzpah to claim that he painted what he saw, even as he produced representations of disjointed people with body parts pointing i