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He believed that being passionately curious is a good thing and that real education is what we would remember after school is over and done.
The boy who no one believed would turn into someone special.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
That incident woke his curiosity and it was then that he felt, ‘something deeply hidden had to be behind things.’
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” —Albert Einstein
‘Ideas come from God’. It was his goal, as he admitted later in life, as a scientist to ‘read God’s mind’.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” —Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” —Albert Einstein
“Movement can only be detected and measured as relative movement; the change of position of one body in respect to another.”
“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But when he sits on hot stove for a minute—that is longer than any hour! That is relativity.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Insanity—doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
