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Read an Albert Einstein Quote on Science and Education

By Simran Khurana, About.com

When I scour the Internet for an Albert Einstein quote, I find him being quoted on a wide variety of topics. But most of us know Einstein as a scientist. So if you are looking for an Albert Einstein quote on science, or education in general, this is the page for you.

  • The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  • Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

  • The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

  • The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  • Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  • The only source of knowledge is experience.

  • It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  • The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  • Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  • No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  • Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

  • All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

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