K.T. Tan's Research Group

Quotes

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