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I read Einstein's biography. Here are 15 quotes that reveal his philosophy on life.

On Education Near the end of his life, the New York State Education Department asked Einstein what they should teach in school. He replied, > In teaching history, there should be an extensive discussion of personalities who benefited mankind through independence of character and judgment. > The value of a...

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I read Einstein's biography. Here are 15 quotes that reveal his philosophy on life.

Mar 15, 2022•-7

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I read Einstein's biography. Here are 15 quotes that reveal his philosophy on life.

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On Education

Near the end of his life, the New York State Education Department asked Einstein what they should teach in school. He replied,

In teaching history, there should be an extensive discussion of personalities who benefited mankind through independence of character and judgment.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

On Curiosity

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But, intuition is nothing but the outcomes of earlier intellectual experience.

Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in

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