"It is nothing short of a miracle..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.
More by Albert Einstein
“[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.”
“It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.”
“If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.”
More on Education
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
“Never memorize what you can look up in a book.”
“The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.”
More on Curiosity
“If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?”
“First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.”
“What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?”