"If a theory can not be explained..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.
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“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'”
“What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.”
“What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.”
More on Simplicity
“Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.”
“The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.”
“I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.”
More on Understanding
“Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.”
“I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”