Albert Einstein Quotations
A friend just sent me these quotations, which I would like to share with you.
1. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
2. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
3. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
4. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
5. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
6. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
7. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
8. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
9. The only source of knowledge is experience.
10. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
11. When the solution is simple, God is answering.
12. The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
13. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
14. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
15. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
16. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
17. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
18. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
19. Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
20. I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.