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81 " Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind. "
― Albert Einstein
82 " Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. "
83 " It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. "
84 " Play is the highest form of research. "
85 " Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. "
86 " Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. "
87 " It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry. "
88 " Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems "
89 " But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. "
― Albert Einstein , Ideas and Opinions
90 " the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. "
91 " Creativity is the residue of time wasted. "
92 " Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. "
93 " When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks. "
94 " If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? "
95 " Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. "
96 " It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. "
97 " Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "
98 " One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have. "
99 " The human spirit must prevail over technology. "
100 " A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. "