On Research
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.” – Albert Einstein
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” – Albert Einstein
On Teaching
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
From the Bible
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” -Proverbs 9:10
“For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” -Romans 1:20
“A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.” -Proverbs 16:9
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?” -Job 12: 7-9