Quotes About Development

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.

Failure is success in progress

I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn

once you stop learning you start dying

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.

The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

How did it come to pass that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity? The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Naturally I could go deeper into the problem than a child with normal abilities.

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

In my opinion, the present symptoms of decadence are explained by the fact that the development of industry and machinery has made the struggle for existence very much more severe, greatly to the detriment of the free development of the individual.

El Estado es para los hombres y no los hombres para el Estado. Como deber primero del Estado veo la protección del individuo, así como ofrecerle la posibilidad de desarrollar una personalidad creativa.