01UndatedIt is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
02UndatedEducation is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to thinkAlbert Einstein / quote ↗
03UndatedEverything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problemsAlbert Einstein / quote ↗
04UndatedBut without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
07UndatedA human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
08UndatedOnce you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
09UndatedWhen I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
10UndatedIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?Albert Einstein / quote ↗
11UndatedThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery eacAlbert Einstein / quote ↗
13UndatedIt would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
15UndatedReading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
16UndatedOne thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
19UndatedNo amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
20UndatedA society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
21UndatedOne of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
23UndatedThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
24UndatedTry and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
